Kenneth L. Reynolds

Kenneth L. Reynolds, age 89, of Grants Pass, died August 18, 2014 at Spring Pointe.

Private interment was held at Eagle Point National Cemetery. Southern Oregon Cremation Services are in charge of arrangements.

Remembrances may be made to Alzheimer’s Association of Oregon, 1650 NW Naito Parkway Suite 190, Portland, Oregon 97209.

Ken was born June 2, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri to Arthur & Vivian Reynolds. At a young age, he started learning the refrigeration trade working with his father. From 1943 to 1958 he served in the United States navy where he was first a firearms instructor and then a ship machinist. After his honorable discharge he worked as a refrigerator/air conditioning repairman mostly in California, Nevada, Washington, and Alaska. He was married to Frances and they later divorced. In 1953 he married Mary Lyn Sullivan. He lived off and on in Grants Pass since the 1990s.

Survivors include a son, Dennis Reynolds of Julian, California; four stepchildren, Mary Ellen Smith, Robert Reynolds, Daniel Reynolds and John Reynolds all of Anchorage, Alaska; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Lyn Reynolds; a son, Stephen L. Reynolds and a brother, Richard Reynolds.