- Date Of Birth: June 26, 1938
- Date Of Death: November 10, 2015
- State: New Jersey
Barry Reid lost his fight with Alzheimer’s disease Tuesday, November 10, 2015. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario on June 26, 1938, and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Barry was the son of the late Lois and Andrew Reid. Graduating from Stamford Collegiate Institute, Barry was a member of the famed Stamford Hornet’s 1965 Cinderella Ontario Senior Boys Basketball Championship Team. For this, he was inducted into the Niagara Falls Sports Wall of Fame in 2013. Barry graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1963 with a BS in Chemical Engineering, participating in the co-op program with the Niagara and Welland Plants of Cyanamid. He earned his MBA from McMaster University in 1973.
After his college graduation, he began his career at Cyanamid in Niagara Falls at the Welland Plant, immigrating to the United States in 1973 to work in Cyanamid’s New Orleans’ Fortier Plant. He then managed the Warner’s Plant in Elizabeth, NJ, the Formica Plant in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Bound Brook Plant, in Bound Brook, NJ. Barry ultimately became an executive in the Wayne, NJ headquarters. He was Vice President of Manufacturing and a member of the Management Team at Cytec Industries, a spin-off of Cyanamid. Barry later worked at the Cytec Industries BV Botlek-Rotterdam plant in The Netherlands. Barry was also a two-term Chairman of the Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey and honored for his role by both the New Jersey State Assembly and Senate.
A resident of Ridgewood, NJ since 1983, Barry was a parishioner of St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood. He was a Sunday school teacher, had an integral role in Youth Ministry, and was a member of the Church Vestry. Sue and Barry also returned to Ontario in 1999 and had a beautiful vacation home in Niagara on the Lake until 2013.
Barry was an avid runner. He completed over 25 Ridgewood Runs; was a proud participant and “Senior Pacesetter” of the Claremont Road Running Team, where he competed in the Wyckoff Triathlon; and, after the age of 70, he ran three half-marathons.
Barry’s friends often said that one could not ask for a more giving, loyal friend than Barry Reid. Barry is survived by his beloved wife of 52 years, Sue; his daughters Catharine Bruzzese of Chatham, NJ, and Adrienne Fernandez, of Westwood, NJ; his four adoring grandchildren, Natalie, John, William and Sarah; and nephew Bruce Reid Henwood of Calgary, Alberta.
