James Ray Reidy [42246] ²¹⁵⁸⁹

  General Notes:

He graduated in 1942 from Field Kinley High School in Coffeyville Kansas, and that same year joined the United State Navy. He served aboard the U.S.S. Barataria in the Phillipines, and after the war attended college at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. graduating in 1950. He met my Mom in Tulsa, Oklahoma while attending college there, and they were married August 30, 1951 in Coffeyville, Kansas. He acquired his law degree at the University of Tulsa, and then we (for I was born by then) moved to Poteau, Oklahoma, where I and my sisters and brother grew up.

I've attached a couple of photos--one of my dad when he was four years old, and another when he was a college student, standing next to his dad.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Billede: James as college student, standing next to his dad.

James married Lucille Ruth Larsen [42227] [MRIN: 15201], daughter of Jens Christoffer Larsen [42175] and Jenny Lorena Banks [42212].