Eric Anthony Reynolds

1937 - 2022

CLYDE - Eric, 85, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday (April 14, 2022).

Friends and family will be notified of a private memorial service later in the spring. There will no calling hours.

In lieu of flowers please send support to World Central Kitchen, 200 Massachusetts Ave, 7th Floor, Washington D.C., DC 20001. Online donations are accepted through their website: wck.org

He was born February 13, 1937, in Middlesex London. The family relocated to Calne Wiltshire during the Battle of Britain 1940, World War II.

Eric immigrated to the United States in 1953, where he attended John Marshall High School, graduating with an American diploma to match his British school completion at John Bentley in Calne Wiltshire UK. He was an avid English football player on both sides of the Atlantic, including playing semi pro out of Rochester for the Hispanolas.

Eric was most recently the NYS Health Program Administrator for Women's Infant and Children Nutrition Program, the Central New York Region out of Syracuse N.Y. since 1994. He previously held positions of State Surveyor and Civil Right Officer for the Rochester Region of the Department of Health, from 1987-94. Prior to that, he was a Human Rights Specialist at the NYS Division of Hyman Rights, Syracuse Region from 1984-87. He retired from State Service in 2003.

Eric was a state certified early childhood educator and teacher for grades k-12. He directed the Head Start Program in Sodus N.Y. in the mid 1970's. He earned his BA in zoology from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and his Master's in education from SUNY Oswego.

Eric was a Vietnam era, U.S. Army veteran, serving as a surgical medic at Tripler Hospital, in Honolulu and prior to that in Texas.

Eric is survived by his wife, Dorothy L. Abrams with whom he created the WebPATH Center, a spiritual healing and ritual center; He is also survived by two sons, Eric Neil Reynolds and Keith Geoffrey Charles (Julie) Reynolds; as well as two grandchildren; and several cousins, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. He will be missed by all.

Eric was predeceased by parents, Charles Beamont Reynolds in 1985 and Edith Annie Vatter Reynolds in 1978, both of Middlesex, London UK more recently of Canada and Duxbury Mass.; by three sisters, Marjorie in 2005, in Surrey UK, Peggy Scott (James) 2010, in Ontario, Canada and Audrey Benedict (John) in Massachusetts, in 2016; and a brother, Charles Bertram Robert Reynolds (Patricia) in 1983, in Merseyside Cheshire UK.

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