Lon Newton Reed

Lon New­ton Reed, 57, of Delaware and for­merly a long­time res­i­dent of Mil­ford Cen­ter, died Tues­day evening (March 20, 2012) at River­side Hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing an extended illness.

Lon was born July 22, 1954 in Marysville to the late Harold N. and Norma I. Clay Reed. He was a gifted free-style painter who, through­out his life, was fraught with tremen­dous dif­fi­cul­ties and suf­fer­ing. Lon was a lov­ing per­son who main­tained his won­der­ful sense of humor and was a teacher of com­pas­sion. A life­long res­i­dent of Union County, he lived on the fam­ily farm below Mil­ford Cen­ter until 2007 when he moved to Delaware to be closer to his fam­ily. He, with his fam­ily, were long­time mem­bers of the Mil­ford Cen­ter United Methodist Church.

He is sur­vived by his sis­ter and brother-in-law, Susan Reed and Thomas A. Craw­ford of Pow­ell; a niece, Lau­ren A. Tyack of Wor­thing­ton; a nephew, Reed G. Tyack of Orlando, Fla.; aunts, Audrey Reed of Gar­den City, N.Y. and Sue Turck of Jack­son, Ohio; many cousins, includ­ing Clay Turck of Cincin­nati, Samuel Turck of Jack­son and Frank Paschall of Jack­son; his physi­cian, David T. Apple­gate, M.D.; and care­givers, Mark (Tony) Dike, Danielle Horne, Susan Fairchild, Cathy Authe­ment, Ash­ley Authe­ment, Alyson Beal, Penny McKen­zie, Aaron Tiedt and Rhoda Brewer.

Call­ing hours will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Fri­day at the Ingram Funeral Home, 975 N. Maple St., Marysville, where funeral ser­vices will be held at 1 p.m. Sat­ur­day with the Rev. Pam Con­nolly offi­ci­at­ing. Bur­ial will fol­low at the Mil­ford Cen­ter Cemetery.

Memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions may be made to the Delaware County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties in care of the funeral home.

Con­do­lences may be sent to ingramfuneral.com.

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