Charles Graham Edgar Reeves ’34

Graham Reeves, who once said he tried twice to retire "with no success," died in Pasco, Wash., Sept. 27, 1996. He retired first in 1952, from the textile business where he had worked since college. He retired again in 1965, from a company he owned to develop automatic fire alarms and manually operated signal horns. He then sold his home in Summit, N.J., the town where he was born, and moved to South Carolina, where in 1967 he built a home in Georgetown, overlooking duck marshes and the Intracoastal Waterway.

That place, called Annandale Plantation, proved to be, in Graham's words, "a very mixed bag." It had duck blinds for lease, a collection of deer stands, and some dove shoots, as well as a contracting business and one for the raising and harvesting of shrimp and blue crabs. "Intermittently," he explained, "we cut, peel, and creosote pine poles and fence posts."

Graham is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Joan Mallory Reeves (Wellesley '43); a son, Richard; a daughter, Margaret R. Drury; a sister, Susan R. Deland, and five grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934