Let’s head back to the March of 1964 when Mrs. Hugh R. Reynolds received a standing ovation from the 200 people at the installation dinner of the Delta Chamber of Commerce after her speech thanking the chamber for choosing her as “Good Citizen of 1963.”
She was presented with an engraved silver tray “for her outstanding work in the community and for countless services given to families and individuals over the past 50 years, without thought of regard or recognition.”
Born Alice Thirkle in 1894, her maternal grandfather was a Delta pioneer merchant who at one time operated the White Store.
Reynolds, who worked as a practical nurse during the flu epidemic in 1918, was a charter member of the True Blue Lodge. She was also active in the church community and such groups as the Evergreen Garden Club, the Canadian Institute for the Blind and Delta Historical Society, among many others.
She married Hugh Reynolds, who for a time was a Delta alderman, in 1924.
