Eugene E Reynolds (1925 - 2010)

Born 13 Apr 1925 in Vandalia, IL

Ancestors

Husband of Virginia Lee (Roberts) Reynolds — married 1 Aug 1950 in Morhead, Kentucky

Died 16 May 2010 at age 85 in Lexington, KY

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Biography

Eugene is the son of Jesse Reynolds and Lennie VanZandt.

Gene graduated from Vandalia High School in 1943, served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-47, and graduated with a B.S. Degree in Forestry from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1949.

His professional career spanned 42 years with the Kentucky Division of Forestry and the Wood-Mosaic Corp. During these years, he initiated a forest survey in Kentucky, helped procure white oak logs for flooring in the National Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., and procured walnut for veneer in our Mexican Embassy.

He was a member of the American Forestry Association, Kentucky Forest Industries Association, a lifetime charter member of the WW II Memorial, charter member of the U.S. Navy Memorial, and a Kentucky Colonel. He was a longtime member of the Frankfort First United Methodist Church.

It was May 16, 2010 when Eugene passed away from CAUSE OF DEATH. He was buried in Morehead, Kentucky at Brown Cemetary.

Sources

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW41-79D : 15 March 2018), Lennie F Reynolds in household of Jess D Reynolds, Ward 3, Vandalia, Vandalia Township, Fayette, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-27, sheet 13A, line 17, family 309, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 801.