Pauline C. Reid

Reid, Pauline Clark, age 85, died peacefully at her home in New York City on July 12. Born in San Francisco on Halloween 1927, she grew up in Westport, MA. A graduate of Miss Hall’s School and of Vassar College, class of 1949, she worked as a TWA flight attendant before marrying Jim T. Reid and settling in Kansas City, MO, where she lived until 2003. Among her many interests, she was head docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, active in the Vassar Club, a volunteer at Saint Luke’s Hospital Auxiliary, and a member of the Altar Guild at St Andrews Episcopal Church. Challenged by the effects of the surgical removal of an acoustic neuroma at age forty, she never lost her sense of wonder or her love of adventure. She is survived by her sisters Phoebe Chardon of Westport, MA, and Jane Ashley of Windsor, VT, her children Sarah Reid of New York, NY, Bill Reid of Cave Creek, AZ, and Catherine Cox of Salem, OR, their spouses, and six grandchildren, Stephen and Emily Gikow, Sarah Caldwell Grimes, and Rachel, Ian and Patrick Caldwell. Interment will be private.