PAUL L. REIBER Jr.

REIBER PAUL L., Jr.
Age 93, died peacefully April 7, 2016, at Good Samaritan Hospice Wexford, PA with family by his side. Paul was born on August 22, 1922, in Pittsburgh, PA, son of Paul L. Reiber, Sr. and Adelaide Succop Reiber. He graduated from Peabody High School, East Liberty, PA where he was President of his Senior Class. He entered Lehigh University in 1940. While at Lehigh Paul was President of Beta Theta Pi, a member of the national honorary engineering society and worked between semesters in the foundry at the Bethlehem Steel mill. In 1944 Paul joined the war effort, responding to a request to join a Defense Department research project for which he earned recognition and honor. After graduation he joined US Steel, and then Union Carbide working in their international division as a Manager in the New York City, London and Geneva offices. At one point Paul lost the coin toss and he and his wife Esta moved first to Harpenden, Hertfordshire outside of London, then Geneva, Switzerland for a total ten years. In their lives overseas Paul and Esta made many, many friends. Paul married Esta Winfield Judy, who he met through his twin sister, MaryLou. Paul and Esta were married at the First Presbyterian Church, Mt. Lebanon 1944. Together they raised five children in homes across the northeast and England. As a young couple, before they moved to England Paul and Esta built a summer cottage in the Outer Banks, a place that became a retreat for children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, extended family and friends. Their steady focus on that place, together with cousin Ruth Succop next door, was the importance of staying in touch. He particularly enjoyed in recent years reunions at the beach, thumbing his nose at fate, out of his wheel chair propped up by strong grandsons taking on the waves. Throughout his life he made his mark with everyone he met, a servant to the everlasting warmth of the human spirit as evoked by his beloved Bach and the Bach Choir Bethlehem where he performed or attended the St. Mathew Passion the Choir presents every spring. Paul was preceded in death by his wife and the mother of their five children, Esta Judy Reiber who died on February 8, 1998. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Pflasterer Reiber of Mt. Lebanon, PA; and by his five children, Judy of Minneapolis, MN, Paul III and his wife, Sandi of Chittenden, VT, Charles and his wife, Diana of Grand Junction, CO, Thomas and his wife, Kaye of Portersville, PA, and Robert and his wife, Mary of Lincoln, VT. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren, Amanda, Abe, Alex, Nathan, Holly, Chad, Irish, Cybelle, Lee, Auti, Kim, Ashley, Abbi, Chip, and Anne; 17 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; four stepchildren, Linda Sue Boehmer, James Pflasterer, Tom Pflasterer and Nancy Haughton; and nine step- grandchildren. The family would like to thank the staff at Concordia of the South Hills for the warm, compassionate care and respect shown Paul during his final months. There will be a memorial service at Christ United Methodist, Bethel Park, PA on Tuesday at 10 a.m. For more information please call 724-941-3211. The family invites you to share your memories and condolences here. Please add and view tributes at:
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