Avis de décès de Paul-Wingfield Reid - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

<!-- FH = A.E. Carter Funeral Home -->Paul Wingfield Reid, 87, of Madison, Ga., passed away on October 16, 2010 at St. Mary's Hospital in Athens, Ga.Born August 25, 1923, in his ancestral home, the Hunter House in Madison, he was the son of the late Paul Wingfield Reid, Sr. and Mamie Hunter Reid Burney, and stepson of the late Patrick Shields Burney, also of Madison.He was predeceased by his wife of 44 years, Kathleen Harper, formerly of Thomasville, Ga., in 2000, a brother, Hudson Hunter Reid, of Madison, and a sister, Isabelle Reid Chevlin, and her husband, Lt. Col. Myron Chevlin of Kailua, Hawaii.Educated in the Madison school system, he later graduated from Georgia Military College in 1942 and attended the University of Georgia, majoring in business, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Order.In 1942 he entered military service with the U.S. Army, training at Camp Swift, Texas. He was a staff sergeant and machine gunner in H Company, 2nd Battalion, 406th Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army, and saw action in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, earning two battle stars for the Ardennes and Rhineland Campaigns. After the war he served in the Army Counter intelligence Corps.He began his professional life as a sales representative for Richter-Cochran Company and in the 1950s worked as a cotton broker and in the family business, Hunter Furniture Company. He later specialized in the fastneer, container, and aerospace industries as a manufacturers representative for Gillett & Eaton Corporation, Gould Corporation, Camloc, Rex Chainbelt, and Edgewater Marine, among others. He held a fastener patent. In the final years of his working career, he served as a national account manager for Madison-based Pennington Seed Co.He served on the Madison Airport Authority, Madison Industrial Development Board, Madison Chamber of Commerce, and was a member of American Legion Post 37. In addition, he was among a group of visionary Madisonians who, as part of the Morgan County Foundation, helped transform the old Madison Grade School, an 1895 Romanesque Revial facility that he attended as young boy, into the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, a widely acclaimed regional museum and visual and performing arts center. It was during his board chairmanship of the MMCC that the facility was completely renovated and dedicated in 1976 with a keynote address by then governor George Busbee.Mr. Reid was a member of and served as Sunday School secretary at Madison Baptist Church for many years before following his wife up the street to Madison Presbyterian Chuch after she accepted the position of church organist, which she held for 20 years prior to her death.He is survived by sons Paul Wingfield Reid III of Madison, and Frank Hunter Reid and his wife, Jeanne Symmes Reid, and grandson Alexander Symmes Reid of Greenville, S.C.; and a daughter, Kathleen (Kathy) Reid Bangle and her husband, Dr. James Francis Bangle, and grandsons James Francis Bangle, Jr. and Reid Harper Bangle, of Athens, Ga., along with a brother and sister-in-law, James K. (Jimmy) Harper and his wife, Claire, of Atlanta, Ga., a nephew and three neices. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice or to The Paul W. and Kathleen H. Reid Memorial Fund through the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, 434 S. Main St., Madison, Ga., 30650, in support of music programming, or the Madison Presbyterian Church, 382 S. Main St.Funeral services were held Oct. 18 at the Madison Presbyterian Church with internment in the Madison Cemetary.