Virginia Reynolds Obituary

Virginia (Ginny Mae) Reynolds, 87, of Greenwich, CT, passed away at Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, SC on June 30, 2025. Born in Greenwich, CT, she was the daughter of James F. Gleason and Mary F. (Golden) Gleason. She grew up in Greenwich and graduated from Greenwich High School in 1956.

Ginny worked as a legal assistant after High School and married Howard K. Reynolds in November of 1959. She was a homemaker to her four children for 13 years after marrying her husband. She returned to work in 1973, where she obtained an Executive Assistant position at Fawcett Publications, where she worked for two decades and through many mergers. Her work career concluded in 2008 when she retired from Preferred Properties in Greenwich, where she was Executive Assistant to the owner.

Ginny was the family Matriarch to her four children, with the ocean as a backyard, and a tradition was born. Her children learned at an early age that they were going to love the water. A woman who insisted on a deep-sea fishing excursion for her honeymoon, she succeeded in hooking big game despite her new husband's chronic seasickness. For seven straight years in the 1970’s Ginny and her family boarded their 28-foot vessel and motored out to Fire Island off of Long Island’s South Shore, where they would spend the summer. The love of the water has carried forward to all four of her children, who own boats, the boys on Long Island Sound and her daughter on Lake Keowee in South Carolina.

The Greenwich Police Department was very important to Ginny. Her Uncle John Gleason was Chief of Police in the 1950s, her ex-husband was Captain of Detectives; brother James, Captain of Traffic, and two sons, Michael, retired Sergeant, and Kent, retired Detective.

Ginny is survived by her four children, Kimberly (Todd) Oeding of Seneca, SC, where Ginny lived the last three months; Kevin (Regina) Reynolds of Fairfield, CT; Michael (Tina) Reynolds of Monroe, CT; and Kent (Margaret) Reynolds Sr. of Greenwich, CT. Grandchildren: Kaylee (William) Westerman, Kent Reynolds Jr., Molly Reynolds, Jack Reynolds. Great Grandchild Nathan Westerman. Brother, Kenneth (Donna) Gleason, and Sister-in-law, Barbara Gleason.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brother James F. Gleason Jr.

A memorial mass will be held at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, 70 Bountyland Road, Seneca, SC 29672 on Monday, July 14, 2025, at 11:00 am with a Reception immediately following at The Historic Ballenger House, 212 E. South 3rd Street, Seneca 29678. 

A Funeral Mass will be held at a later date in Greenwich, CT.

 Instead of flowers, please send memorial contributions to the National MS Society or the Greenwich Silver Shield Association.