Kenneth J. Reeve, 101, passed away Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at Brandermill Woods Health Care Center in Midlothian, Virginia.
Private services will be held by the family. Kenneth has been cremated and his ashes entrusted to his family. Memorials can be made to the Brown County Historical Society, Nashville, Indiana, or the Alzheimer's Association.
Kenneth Jeanneret Reeve was born July 2, 1910, in Western Springs, Illinois, the son of Henry Jeanneret and Eva Elizabeth (Hart) Reeve. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He married Helen Estella Hessler on November 30, 1935, in Western Springs. He worked as a commercial artist and art director for Chicago advertising agencies, until 1949 when they moved to Brown County. He was a member of the Brown County Art Gallery, serving as president and director, the Indiana Artists Club, The Hoosier Salon, Indiana Heritage Arts, and The Twenty. His landscape watercolors, aquatint etchings and serigraphs of wildlife were exhibited regionally and nationally, winning many purchase and merit awards.
He researched and published his family genealogy and later collaborated with his wife on several genealogical compilations and histories of Brown County families published by the Brown County Historical Society. Other interests included nature study, bird watching, wildflower gardening, woodworking and traveling. Along with Helen, they traveled to wildlife refuges, mountains and sea coasts in the United States and Canada and to the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, areas depicted in some of his watercolors.
Surviving are his wife, Helen; one daughter, Susan (George) Cash of Chesterfield, VA; one son, Daniel (Martha) Reeve of Swanville, ME; and three grandchildren, Gregory Miles, Andrew Reeve and Lee Reeve.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN
Private services will be held by the family. Kenneth has been cremated and his ashes entrusted to his family. Memorials can be made to the Brown County Historical Society, Nashville, Indiana, or the Alzheimer's Association.
Kenneth Jeanneret Reeve was born July 2, 1910, in Western Springs, Illinois, the son of Henry Jeanneret and Eva Elizabeth (Hart) Reeve. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He married Helen Estella Hessler on November 30, 1935, in Western Springs. He worked as a commercial artist and art director for Chicago advertising agencies, until 1949 when they moved to Brown County. He was a member of the Brown County Art Gallery, serving as president and director, the Indiana Artists Club, The Hoosier Salon, Indiana Heritage Arts, and The Twenty. His landscape watercolors, aquatint etchings and serigraphs of wildlife were exhibited regionally and nationally, winning many purchase and merit awards.
He researched and published his family genealogy and later collaborated with his wife on several genealogical compilations and histories of Brown County families published by the Brown County Historical Society. Other interests included nature study, bird watching, wildflower gardening, woodworking and traveling. Along with Helen, they traveled to wildlife refuges, mountains and sea coasts in the United States and Canada and to the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, areas depicted in some of his watercolors.
Surviving are his wife, Helen; one daughter, Susan (George) Cash of Chesterfield, VA; one son, Daniel (Martha) Reeve of Swanville, ME; and three grandchildren, Gregory Miles, Andrew Reeve and Lee Reeve.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN
Kenneth J. Reeve, 101, passed away Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at Brandermill Woods Health Care Center in Midlothian, Virginia.
Private services will be held by the family. Kenneth has been cremated and his ashes entrusted to his family. Memorials can be made to the Brown County Historical Society, Nashville, Indiana, or the Alzheimer's Association.
Kenneth Jeanneret Reeve was born July 2, 1910, in Western Springs, Illinois, the son of Henry Jeanneret and Eva Elizabeth (Hart) Reeve. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He married Helen Estella Hessler on November 30, 1935, in Western Springs. He worked as a commercial artist and art director for Chicago advertising agencies, until 1949 when they moved to Brown County. He was a member of the Brown County Art Gallery, serving as president and director, the Indiana Artists Club, The Hoosier Salon, Indiana Heritage Arts, and The Twenty. His landscape watercolors, aquatint etchings and serigraphs of wildlife were exhibited regionally and nationally, winning many purchase and merit awards.
He researched and published his family genealogy and later collaborated with his wife on several genealogical compilations and histories of Brown County families published by the Brown County Historical Society. Other interests included nature study, bird watching, wildflower gardening, woodworking and traveling. Along with Helen, they traveled to wildlife refuges, mountains and sea coasts in the United States and Canada and to the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, areas depicted in some of his watercolors.
Surviving are his wife, Helen; one daughter, Susan (George) Cash of Chesterfield, VA; one son, Daniel (Martha) Reeve of Swanville, ME; and three grandchildren, Gregory Miles, Andrew Reeve and Lee Reeve.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN
Private services will be held by the family. Kenneth has been cremated and his ashes entrusted to his family. Memorials can be made to the Brown County Historical Society, Nashville, Indiana, or the Alzheimer's Association.
Kenneth Jeanneret Reeve was born July 2, 1910, in Western Springs, Illinois, the son of Henry Jeanneret and Eva Elizabeth (Hart) Reeve. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He married Helen Estella Hessler on November 30, 1935, in Western Springs. He worked as a commercial artist and art director for Chicago advertising agencies, until 1949 when they moved to Brown County. He was a member of the Brown County Art Gallery, serving as president and director, the Indiana Artists Club, The Hoosier Salon, Indiana Heritage Arts, and The Twenty. His landscape watercolors, aquatint etchings and serigraphs of wildlife were exhibited regionally and nationally, winning many purchase and merit awards.
He researched and published his family genealogy and later collaborated with his wife on several genealogical compilations and histories of Brown County families published by the Brown County Historical Society. Other interests included nature study, bird watching, wildflower gardening, woodworking and traveling. Along with Helen, they traveled to wildlife refuges, mountains and sea coasts in the United States and Canada and to the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, areas depicted in some of his watercolors.
Surviving are his wife, Helen; one daughter, Susan (George) Cash of Chesterfield, VA; one son, Daniel (Martha) Reeve of Swanville, ME; and three grandchildren, Gregory Miles, Andrew Reeve and Lee Reeve.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN
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