Reid Schell Byers
Reid Schell Byers died on September 3, 2009 at Stonebridge at Monte-gomery,in Skillman, New Jersey. Mr. Byers was born April 11, 1922 in Uniontown, Pa., the son of Wiley Livingston Byers and Pauline (Reid) Byers. He was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall Academy and Carnegie Mellon University.
Mr. Byers retired in 1981 as President of Ingalls Iron Works Company, Marine Division. He was a marine consultant in Pensacola until his retirement in 2001.
He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service during World War II and was aboard the USS Segundo at the signing of the peace treaty in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
He was a life member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Waterways Operators in Washington, D. C.
He was a charter member of the Steering Committee of the American Shipyards Conference and served on the Western Rivers Technical Committee of the American Bureau of Shipping, and on the Board of the Water Resources Council. He also served as a board member of Rotary International.
Mr. Byers was a Deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, as were his father and grandfather. He was also a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Decatur, Alabama and the Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth (Beall) Byers; his son, the Rev. Reid Byers, Jr. and his wife Patricia Burch Byers; and their sons: Reid III and Hartman of Princeton, New Jersey, and by his son, Dr. Thomas Beall Byers and his children: Jack and Anna of Louisville, Kentucky. He is also survived by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth (Beall) Metzler. Mr. Byers was predeceased by his beloved daughter-in-law, Ann (Browning) Byers.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Stonebridge Foundation Employees Fund, 300 Hollinshead Spring Road, Skillman, NJ 08558 or Planned Parenthood of Mercer County, 437 East State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608.