Jim and Carol Reynolds will renew their vows in Kauai.
Dave Modderman
Carol and Jim Reynolds will be celebrating their 60th anniversary on February 12 with a cruise in the Hawaiian Islands along with several members of the PebbleCreek Community, several of whom will join them in renewing their vows on the beach on Kauai.
Carol and Jim met in the fall of 1947 at a high school football game when Jim was a junior and Carol a sophomore. They attended Ohio University together where Carol earned an Associate in Arts and an Engineering degree. They were married in the Baptist church in Kenmore, New York in 1955.
Jim received his commission in the U.S. Air Force and the newlyweds soon found themselves stationed at Pepperall AFB, Newfoundland, where their first daughter, Susan, was born in 1956. Upon Jim’s discharge he worked on major construction projects in Ohio where their second daughter, Sheryl, was born in 1959 and in South Dakota where their third daughter, Sandra, arrived in 1962.
In 1965 Jim entered the University Of Washington School of Law where he earned his J.D. degree and on graduation practiced law in the Seattle area. He was a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the U.S. District Court bar.
In 1975, The Boeing Company of Seattle, Washington, made an offer of a senior management position in International Operations, which Jim accepted; the family settled down in Bellevue, Washington, where for the next 15 years they took up hiking, sailing, camping and skiing. In 1991 Jim was assigned as the Vice President/General Manager of the Boeing Technical Assistance Team in Bandung, Indonesia. While overseas, they traveled extensively to Malaysia, Thailand, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, England, Spain, Portugal and Ireland and even went on safari in Kenya, Africa.
In 1997 Jim and Carol moved to PebbleCreek and, for the next 17 years, Jim has been active in various HOA committees, Kare Bears and the PebbleCreek Community Church. Carol has also been active in their church serving as a Deacon, sewing costumes, producing a play called The Message and organizing the church’s participation in the Veterans Day Parade.
They now spend their summers kayaking in the Pacific Northwest or visiting their daughters. Sandy and Bill Pugh live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, with Sara Emily, a junior at University of Wyoming and Jesse James, a senior in high school. Or they go to Seattle to see Susie and Sheryl.
Their family and friends wish Carol and Jim a happy anniversary and God’s blessings as they celebrate 60 years of love, laughter and warm memories.