Richard "Rich" Lee Reynolds

A a celebration of life for "Rich" will be held Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM at Olinger Crown Hill, 7777 West 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033. A reception will occur Friday, October 18, 2019 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. A cremation will occur.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.CrownHillFuneral.com for the Reynolds family.

Rich's life-long love affair with flight and travel started with pilot’s training on his 16th birthday. As a pilot and Goldwing rider he crisscrossed the U.S. several times. After high school Rich attended the University of Nebraska and served as an Aerographers Mate at North Island Naval Air Station in Sand Diego, California. After being honorably discharged Rich spent his adult life working in telecommunications and to assure that the individual worth and equality of everyone, especially gay people, was recognized. Rich’s telecommunications career included employment at Pacific Telephone, AT & T, and Lucent Technologies.

His extraordinary travel achievements include visiting over 50 countries with friends and family by flying over a million air-miles in at least 40 different aircraft on 52 commercial airlines, crossing both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans by cruise ship / ocean liner, and traveling several thousand nautical miles on cruise ships. Among his fondest memories were flying alone through the Grand Canyon, riding through the mountains and canyons of the western U.S. and camping in his RV with his YAG brothers.

He was an early member of AT & T’s gay and lesbian employees group, helped found the Front Range Bears and Colorado Four Players. He Volunteered for Project Angel Heart, The Hospice of St. John, and the American Red Cross. And was active in several leather-levi and motorcycle clubs over his lifetime.

Rich is survived by his husbands, Ray Daugherty and Ron Reid, his mother Ethel of Kansas City, Missouri; his brother Bill, his sister Janice, Tommy Hom, Kelly Bigelow, a host of close friends which he considered family and several nieces and nephews.

All in all “not bad for a protestant boy from a small town in Nebraska” as he would say. But, we all knew he was much more than that.

It was Rich’s wish that his family and friends memorialize him by making a gift to “a charity or some other worthy project” of their choice.