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Reid S. Byers

Reid Schell Byers died on September 3 at Stonebridge at Montgomery, in Skillman. Born April 11, 1922, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of Wiley Livingston Byers and Pauline Reid Byers, he was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall Academy and Carnegie Mellon University.

After retiring in 1981 as president of Ingalls Iron Works Company, Marine Division, he was a marine consultant in Pensacola until 2001.

He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service during World War II and was aboard the USS Segundo at the signing of the peace treaty in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.

A life member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he served on the Board of Directors of the American Waterways Operators in Washington, D.C. He was a charter member of the Steering Committee of the American Shipyards Conference and served on the Western Rivers Technical Committee of the American Bureau of Shipping, and on the Board of the Water Resources Council. He also served as a board member of Rotary International.

He was a Deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, as were his father and grandfather. He was also a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Decatur, Alabama and the Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth Beall Byers, his son, the Rev. Reid Byers, Jr. and his wife Patricia Burch Byers, and their sons, Reid III and Hartman of Princeton; and by his son, Dr. Thomas Beall Byers and his children Jack and Anna, of Louisville, Kentucky. He is also survived by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Beall Metzler. Mr. Byers was predeceased by his beloved daughter-in-law, Ann Browning Byers.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Stonebridge Foundation Employees Fund, 300 Hollinshead Spring Road, Skillman, N.J. 08558 or Planned Parenthood of Mercer Country, 437 East State Street, Trenton 08608.