Melvin Reiter

Melvin Reiter East Lansing Born, January 3, 1925, in Plainfield, Illinois, son of Raymond and Mabel Reiter. Died Monday, November 29, 2010 in Lansing. He graduated from District 119 elementary school in New Lenox, Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, and University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His degree was a bachelor of science with honors in architectural engineering. Melvin married Berle Garrett of Dowagiac, Michigan, on August 20, 1949. Their children are Amy (Daryl) Davis, Bart (Marian), Jane (Timothy) Watters, and Frank (Cathy), grandchildren, Eva, Nicole, William and Lauren, great-grandson, Joseph, a brother, Robert (Dorothy) Reiter, a sister Evelyn (Wade) Krohn and several loving nieces and nephews. Melvin worked nine years in private practice for architectural offices in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. He began working as an architect in the Building Division, State Department of Administration, in November 1958, retiring from this same working group in December 1989. His forte was long-range institutional planning and was responsible to a large extent for walkable campuses at Michigan Technological University and Central Michigan University. He was always active in voluntary organizations and held many roles and offices in them. He is nationally known as author of a standard catalog of dairy and milk trade tokens and related exonumia and also as a long-time columnist on the same subject in the now-defunct quarterly newsletter, Creamers. A Gathering of Remembrance will be Saturday, December 11, 2010, from 10:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. at the Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Delhi Chapel, 5035 Holt Road. Those wishing to do so may contribute to Michigan Token and Medal Society, P.O. Box 256, Okemos, MI, 48805. Condolences can be made at www.palmerbush.com.