David Rennie

1961 - 2025

David Rennie
David Waldron Rennie, age 63, of Shelton passed away on Friday, January 10, 2025 at St. Vincent's Hospital. He was born in Greenwich on February 22, 1961, son of the late Gordon Hunter and Virginia Waldron Rennie. He was the beloved husband of Meg Rennie and loving father and grandfather of his daughter Katherine Rennie Carberry, her husband Kenneth, and their children Kiera and Nora, as well as his daughter Carolyn Rennie Losos and her husband Wojciech. He was the brother of Richard Rennie and his wife Terry, and the late Carol Rennie, and uncle to Karla Rennie Downing and her husband Van; Amanda Rennie; Christine Chambers and her children; Thomas Chambers; and Andrew Huber, his wife Sarah, and their children. David graduated from Greenwich High School, where he played trumpet in the marching band, and then from Denison University with a BFA in music education. A lifelong Scouter like his father, David achieved Eagle Scout and the Order of the Arrow's Vigil Honor and started his professional career as a District Executive of the Housatonic Council. He served in many leadership positions during his fourteen years at the Hiawatha Seaway Council (now the Longhouse Council) in New York, and his ten years at the Connecticut Yankee Council, until he retired in 2014. David enjoyed directing summer camps, including what became Strang Scout Reservation in Connecticut and Sabattis Scout Reservation in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Throughout his life, David also served in several leadership positions at St. Matthew's Episocopal Church in Liverpool, New York, and at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Shelton, Connecticut. On March 3, 2015, David and Meg participated in an historic eight-way chain of live kidney transplant surgeries performed at Yale-New Haven Hospital. David was fortunate and grateful to receive a kidney from an altruistic donor. The near-decade that followed saw some of David's most joyful moments. He won HGTV's 2016 Dream Home Giveaway and celebrated the weddings of his two daughters and the births of his two granddaughters. Friends may call on Monday, January 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Riverview Funeral Home, 390 River Rd., Shelton. His funeral service will take place on Tuesday, January 21 at 10 a.m., at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 25 Church Street, Shelton. Friends may leave condolences at www.riverviewfh.com. In lieu of flowers, please consider making donations to the Yale New Haven Transplantation Center or the Campership Program at Scouting America's Housatonic Council.