POTSDAM--Guy E. Reed, 72, Potsdam, died Sunday at his home, under the care of Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley.

Mr. Reed served with the Army as a heavy equipment operator and was employed with Elliot’s Hardwoods, Norfolk Paper Mill and Aluminum Company of America.

Born Aug. 29, 1932, in Parishville, a son of Guy E. and Mayfred Randall Reed, he attended schools in Parishville and married Marie Ramsey on Sept. 26, 1964, in DeKalb Junction.

He was a member of Potsdam Volunteer Fire Department and the American Legion Post and enjoyed making maple syrup, hunting fishing and being a volunteer fireman.

Surviving besides his wife are four daughters, Wendy Rybert, serving with the military in California, Betty O’Brien and Peggy Smith, both of Potsdam, and Amy Sharlow, Canton; two brothers, Gerald, Norwood, and William, Norfolk; three sisters, Helen Butchino, Potsdam, Altha Sawyer, Norwood, and Sally Kelly, Parishville; five grandchildren and a great-grandson.

His parents, a brother, Lloyd, and a sister, Marian Newtown, died before him.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Garner Funeral Home. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Norwood.

Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Donations may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley or Potsdam Volunteer Fire Department.

(From the Tuesday, July 26, 2005 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).