Vivian Doney Reid

Vivian Doney Reid was born on May 11, 1911 to Caroline Frantz Doney and John Calvin doney in Indiana County, Canoe Township, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in Public School Music and English. She was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority. Mrs. Reid also engaged in postgraduate study at Kent State and Youngstown State Universities. She was named a Jennings Scholar in 1969-1970.

Mrs. Reid?s teaching career spanned thirty-two years, the first seven of those in Pennsylvania where she also served as Royal Matron of the Angeline E. Pollum Ct., No. 96 and as President of the Jenks Hill PTA. After moving to Niles, Ohio in 1950 she supervised music in all of the Niles City Elementary Schools. Many of her former students will remember their participation in the numerous operettas she directed which involved hundreds of children in city wide musical productions each year. Operettas she directed included The Magic Oven, Honey Pirates, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer, Dickens? A Christmas Carol, and Rumpelstiltskin. She concluded her teaching career in Niles in the English Department of Niles McKinley High School. After her retirement, Mrs. Reid engaged in selling real estate for several years.

Mrs. Reid was director of the Youth Choir of The First Presbyterian Church in Niles, for many years, and co-director of the original ?White House Ladies.? As a member of The Argonaut Club, The Trumbull County Chapter of The Eastern Star, a Girl Scout counselor and The First Presbyterian Church she was an active participant in the community of Niles for many years. She was a member of The Ohio and Trumbull County Retired Teacher Associations.

Her husband, William Simpson Reid, whom she married in Limestone, New York, January 17, 1931, preceded her in death, as did three brothers, Daniel Mildred Doney, Henry Margaret Doney, and Clifford Thelma Doney. A son, William Doney Reid and daughter-in-law, Patricia Walker Reid of Lafayette, Louisianna; daughters, Caroyl Reid of Lexington, Kentucky, and Susan Reid Sharp, wife of Robert Tadsen Sharp, of

Hillsboro, Ohio, survive her. She also leaves behind grandchildren, Robin Reid Bourque, Renee Reid Reiners, Kathy Reid Borah, William Michael Reid, Amy Sharp Schneider, Robert Reid Sharp; great grandchildren, Brian Bourque, Daniel Bourque, Matthew Bourque, Ashley Reiners, Christine Reiners, Katie Borah, and great great grandchild, Kayden Bourque.

Graveside services will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 4:00 P.M. at the Circle Hill Cemetery in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Burial will follow in the Circle Hill Cemetery.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, April 19, 2002 at 11:00 A.M. at the Niles First Presbyterian Church in Niles, Ohio with William Roemer and Henry Pearce officiating.

The family requests that memorials may be sent to The First Presbyterian Church, 4 Summit Street, Niles, OH 44446.

Hope Miller-Thompson Funeral Home in Hillsboro, Ohio is in charge of arrangements.
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