Cynthia Marie Reische

Cynthia Marie Reische of Grandview, MO passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 2, 2022. Cindy was born May 12, 1955 in Kansas City, MO. She was the daughter of Francis Taylor and Ola Marie Rogers.

She became engaged her senior year of High School and married Stephen Hillyer immediately following graduation from Ruskin High School. She then moved to Germany to join Stephen, to serve as a supportive military wife, for the next 20 years. She lived in Germany for three years and had her first child, Laurie Ola Marie Hillyer on July 10, 1975. Sadly, Laurie was born prematurely and passed away soon after birth. Though Cindy was terribly broken-hearted, she courageously picked up the pieces, and moved forward, because she was determined to be a mother and raise a family. They received their new assignment orders to Fort Leonard Wood, MO, where she lived for three years and started her family, beginning with her son, Kelly Stephen Hillyer, born July 21, 1976. Two years later she gave birth to her daughter Honey Lynn Hillyer, born on June 26, 1978. Being a Drill Instructor's spouse, and a mother would be one of the most demanding undertakings of her life, but she performed her duty as a wife and mother with love and devotion. Orders to Korea brought their time at Ft. Leonard Wood to an end, and because she could not accompany Stephen to Korea, Cindy and her two children moved back to Kansas City, with her parents for support.

When Steve returned home from Korea to rejoin the family, they were reassigned to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO for an additional three years and then follow-on orders, to Fort Riley, KS. There she started her career as a Dental Assistant and met her best friend of 37 years Cindy Inderrieden. Cindy and her family lived on Fort Riley for the next ten years. During that time she started volunteering with the Red Cross on the military base and then became eligible to go through the Dental Training program and after completion became a certified Dental Assistant. She then became a Dentac Supervisor through the US Army. After the contract ended she began her career in private practice and Steve and Cindy decided to move their family to Junction City, KS, just off base, where she continued her dental assisting career. In 1992 Steve retired from the Army, where Cindy and her family moved back home to Kansas City, MO. She then continued her dental assisting career in private practice, under Dr. Childers.

In 1994 Steve and Cindy decided to divorce and Cindy went on to remarry her beloved husband Timothy Reische in 1996, where they continued a lasting and loving marriage for the next 26 years until her passing. In 1998, Cindy was forced to go on disability, where she became a full time stay-at-home wife. In 2005, after receiving a commission in the U.S. Army, Kelly deployed on his first of three combat tours, where she seamlessly became the center of love and support for her son, as a military mother just as she had always been throughout his entire life. As a loving mother does, she worried terribly for her son while he was deployed but then, in 2006 Cindy ́s prayers were answered by finally becoming a doting grandmother to a baby girl Paxtynne Mae Pritchett. Paxtynne soon became the center of Cindy's world, and four years later she was blessed in 2010 with her first grandson Phoenix Ray Pritchett. Her mind and heart found peace in caring for her grandchildren throughout the years. Her step sons Luke and Nick also gave her four beautiful grandchildren to continue her devotion and passion as a grandmother, which radiated as some of the happiest times in her life. Cindy was a very loving daughter, sister, wife, grandmother and most of all mother.

Left to cherish her memory are her beloved children Kelly Hillyer and Honey Pritchett along with her children Paxtynne and Phoenix Pritchett; her husband Tim Reische; her step sons Luke and Nick Reische and their children Chiles, Oakley, Mack and Brynlee; her sister Lynn Jackson, brothers Michael Rogers, Steven Rogers and Mark Rogers; her best friends Cindy Inderrieden and Wendy Lowery.