WILLIAM T. REYNOLDS
William T. Reynolds, a Larchmont stock broker whose 45 year career included a partnership at Loeb Rhodes investment firm and a vice presidency of Merrill Lynch, died November 18 in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he had retired. He was 77. The cause was cancer, said hs wife, Emily Reynolds.Mr. Reynolds had spent recent years volunteering at a food pantry in Mamaroneck and visiting patients at nursing homes in Larchmont, where he had lived for 43 years before moving to Silver Spring in 2005. He continued to spend summers in northern New York at a home on the St. Lawrence River in Morristown.
William Thomas Reynolds was born December 7, 1929 in Newark, NJ. At Cornell University, he was a member of the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. He graduated in 1951 and after training as an artillery officer, became a forward observer in the mountains of Korea during the height of the conflict there. While attempting to make it back to is own lines, he was shot in the face at close range. It ended his front line service, but he survived the wound and carried a facial scar, which he wore as proudly as he did his Purple Heart. He began his career as a stockbroker after earning his MBA from Cornell University in 1955.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Reynolds is survived by his daughter, Julie Johns: his son, William G. Reynolds; and four grandchildren.