John Bradstreet

Birth 2 JUN 1689 • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts

Death 22 NOV 1725 • Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Birth 21 FEBRUARY 1710 • Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Death 1754 • Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Birth 1753 • Colchester, New London, Connecticut

Death 1817 • Brookfield, Trumbull, Ohio

Birth 25 JUL 1782 • Luzerne, Luzerne, Pennsylvania

Death 4 AUG 1848 • Springfield, Clark, Ohio

Birth 1809 •

Death 1860 • Michigan

Birth ABT 1885 • Michigan

Death OCT 1964 • Michigan

Birth 08 JUL 1932 • Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan

Death 14 JUN 2004 • Ilwaco, Pacific, Washington

Parents:

Wilson Gaylord Reeder (1885–1964)

Florence Katherine Knacker (1895–1943)

Harold LeRoy Reeder

8 Jul 1932 – Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan

14 Jun 2004 – Ilwaco, Pacific, Washington

My father, Harold LeRoy Reeder, was born on July 8, 1932 in Plymouth, Michigan. His parents were Florence (Katherine) Knacker and Wilson Gaylord Reeder. He had three sisters and two brothers: Margaret (1919), Billy (1921), Hazel (1924), Betty (1928), and Ralph (1935).

In 1935 when he was about three, my father and his family lived in Plymouth, Michigan with his parents. In 1940 at the age of seven, he and his family lived in Superior, Michigan. In 1943 when Harold was 11, he lost his mother. Catherine died from leukemia in Redford, Michigan.

In 1950, Harold joined the United States Navy. After his honorable discharge in 1954, he joined the Corps of Engineers and served as a bridge painter. He painted The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge in California. He also signed up with The United States Army and fought in the Korean War.

On May 27, 1960, my father married Dorothy Marie Allen in Alameda, California. They had five children: Ann Marie (1961), Tommy Wilson (1963), David LeRoy (1965), Keith Allen (1968), and Daniel Harold (1970).