General Notes

A note from Mindy Reied about her mother:
"  My Mom Patricia (who
signed herself "Patea", as a kind of nickname - pronounced
like Patty or Pati - because she liked tea so much!) was
Grampa's only child, as I was his only grandchild.  My
grandmother Helen wrote an unpublished memoir called "Pride
of Forty Mile" about her Alaskan childhood.  Both the Dawson
City Museum and the Alaska State Library have copies.
Relatives of my grandmother still live in Iceland.  (One is
my distant cousin Valdis Einarsdottir, who came here for a
visit with my adopted sister and myself back in 2001.)

My mother (1933-1993) married Frank Thorpe Reid (1930-1984)
in 1953.  They were fantastic people and I miss them
terrible.  Mom was very creative - a knitter, craftsperson,
dollmaker and Christian lay counsellor, and was very proud
of being a Mom and housewife.  She loved animals and
supported many animal charities.  Dad started out and ended
as a CPA (he died shortly after buying a practice back here,
after leaving Princess Hotels International)...but spent
over 10 years of his life as first Controller, than
Treasurer for Western International Hotels, now known as
Westin.  He loved the hospitality industry.  He also
devotedly supported the work of the Union Gospel Mission to
help the needy and homeless.  Both my parents were born in
Seattle, and both of them died in Bellevue, WA.  They are
buried at Sunset Memorial Park in Bellevue, as are Luke and
Helen.  (I plan on being buried in Hawai'i - which is where
my sister and I hope we will be moving next year.  My sister
is of Hawaiian ancestry.)  Dad died of a heart attack at 54,
Mom at 60 after a long terrible struggle with cancer."