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The Express, Thursday, December 16, 1982, Page D-6
D. P. Reynolds, led Easter Seal drive in Valley
Douglas P. Reynolds, 83, former head of the Easter Seal Campaign
of the Lehigh Valley Society for Cripled children and Adults,
died Tuesday in his home, the Towers Apartments, 55 Spring
St., Bethlehem.
Prior to retiring in 1964 he was manager of the production
scheduling division in the sales department of Bethlehem Steel
Corp.
Born in Easton, he was a son of the late Walter C. Reynolds
Sr. and Rosa G. Garis Reynolds.
Mr. Reynolds joined Bethlhem Steel in 1917 as a clerk in the
order department. After taking a military leave of absence
while hin the Students Army Training Corps at Lafayette CVollege,
he returned to Bethlehem Steel in 1923 and became division
head in the rail order department.
After becoming assistant to the manger of orders in 1925,
he was named assistant manager of orders in 1944, manager of
orders and schedules division in 1954, and manager of the production
scheduling division in 1964.
Mr. Reynolds headed the 1973 Easter Seal drive and was a former
treasurer of the society.
A 1917 graduate of Easton High School, he attended Lehigh
University and Lafayette College.
He was a member of former elder and trustee of First Presbyterian
Church, Bethlehem; a director of the Bethlehem Club and Bethlehem
Buidling and Loan Association, and a past president of the
Coopersburg Lions Club, where he received the club's 27-year
service award.
Surviving are his hwie, the former Katherine R. Heims; a brothers,
Walter C. Jr. of Bethlehem, and two sisters, Mrs. Helen Flynn
and Mrs. William Mertz, both of Bethlehem.
Memorials services wil be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in First
Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem. Interment will be held at the
convenience of the family in Memoiral Park, Bethlhem. The Snyder-Hinkle
Funeral Home, Bethlehem, is in charge of arrangments. |
