By Rebecca Goodman
The Cincinnati Enquirer

CRESTVIEW HILLS - Edward Joseph Reynolds, retired executive of the First National Bank of Covington, died of complications of cancer Sunday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center South in Edgewood.

The Falmouth native was 68.

Mr. Reynolds was born in Falmouth to Edward Earland Mary Frances Schuetz Reynolds.

He was a member of the Falmouth High School class of 1953 and earned an accounting degree from Villa Madonna (now Thomas More) College in 1958.

Mr. Reynolds also earned a degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin.

He was an executive at Central Trust Bank in Ohio for 28 years. He also worked as an accountant for Klee Wholesale in Newport.

Mr. Reynolds retired from the First National Bank in 1984.

He was a minister of praise at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Fort Mitchell and served on several boards, including for United Way and Crime Stoppers of Greater Cincinnati.

Survivors include Marilyn Clare Roth Reynolds, his wife of 46 years; two sons, Gerard Edward Reynolds of Spencerport, N.Y., and Edward Gerard Reynolds of Independence; two daughters, Theresa Geralyn Brun of Indianapolis and Maria Majella Sparks of Edgewood; five sisters, Mary K. Gronotte of Covington, Marge Klee of Fort Mitchell, Betty Lou Coleman of Edgewood, Frances Kelley of Park Hills and Judy Woodheado f Falmouth; and 11 grandchildren.

Visitation is 10 a.m.-noon today followed by Mass of Christian burial at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 202 Second St., Falmouth. Interment is at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Falmouth.

Memorials: Mary Rose Mission, 1543 Russell St., Covington, KY 41011.

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