Eleanor Nash Reeves of Beaumont passed away on Thursday night after a long illness. She is survived by her devoted husband of sixty-two years, Dr. Thomas Joseph Reeves, and her three children, five grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
Born in Waco Texas on August 21st, 1921, to Elihu Reuel Nash and Louise Higginbotham Nash, she was the youngest of five children. As Eleanor Frances Nash, she graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas in 1939, and from Mount Vernon College (a women's college in the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C.) in 1941, and finally from Baylor University in Waco in 1943.
After marrying Joe Reeves in 1944, she lived briefly in San Diego, California, and Pensacola, Florida as the bride of a flight surgeon in the Navy. After the war, they lived in Dallas, Texas, and Beaumont, Texas before settling down in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama where Joe was a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama medical school. During the next twenty years in Birmingham, determined to keep up with Joe in everything he did, she became an avid sailor (competing in many races in Mobile Bay), golfer, and even scuba diver (completing her first 100' dive at the age of 50 in the Bahamas).
After she and Joe moved home to Beaumont in 1975, she took up painting and sculpting, tennis, which she played often at Beaumont Country Club, and at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas during the 70's and 80's. She also loved bridge which she played as often as possible until her final illness.
Much beloved by her children and grandchildren, Linda Reeves Wielchowsky, of Houston, Texas, Joseph Michael Reeves of Birmingham, Alabama, David Nash Scott Reeves of Houston Texas, Lauren Reeves Flink of Boston, Massachusetts, Lindsay Elizabeth Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, Skylar Brooke Reeves of Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Reeves Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, and Joseph Nash Ryan Reeves of Houston, "Miss Ellie" as she was affectionately known by many who were close to her will be truly missed. Her kindness, her love for friends and family, her joy of living, her absolute love and devotion to her husband, and her sweet, uncomplaining attitude in the face of her own illness made her admired and treasured by all who knew her.
Born in Waco Texas on August 21st, 1921, to Elihu Reuel Nash and Louise Higginbotham Nash, she was the youngest of five children. As Eleanor Frances Nash, she graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas in 1939, and from Mount Vernon College (a women's college in the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C.) in 1941, and finally from Baylor University in Waco in 1943.
After marrying Joe Reeves in 1944, she lived briefly in San Diego, California, and Pensacola, Florida as the bride of a flight surgeon in the Navy. After the war, they lived in Dallas, Texas, and Beaumont, Texas before settling down in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama where Joe was a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama medical school. During the next twenty years in Birmingham, determined to keep up with Joe in everything he did, she became an avid sailor (competing in many races in Mobile Bay), golfer, and even scuba diver (completing her first 100' dive at the age of 50 in the Bahamas).
After she and Joe moved home to Beaumont in 1975, she took up painting and sculpting, tennis, which she played often at Beaumont Country Club, and at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas during the 70's and 80's. She also loved bridge which she played as often as possible until her final illness.
Much beloved by her children and grandchildren, Linda Reeves Wielchowsky, of Houston, Texas, Joseph Michael Reeves of Birmingham, Alabama, David Nash Scott Reeves of Houston Texas, Lauren Reeves Flink of Boston, Massachusetts, Lindsay Elizabeth Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, Skylar Brooke Reeves of Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Reeves Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, and Joseph Nash Ryan Reeves of Houston, "Miss Ellie" as she was affectionately known by many who were close to her will be truly missed. Her kindness, her love for friends and family, her joy of living, her absolute love and devotion to her husband, and her sweet, uncomplaining attitude in the face of her own illness made her admired and treasured by all who knew her.
Eleanor Nash Reeves of Beaumont passed away on Thursday night after a long illness. She is survived by her devoted husband of sixty-two years, Dr. Thomas Joseph Reeves, and her three children, five grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
Born in Waco Texas on August 21st, 1921, to Elihu Reuel Nash and Louise Higginbotham Nash, she was the youngest of five children. As Eleanor Frances Nash, she graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas in 1939, and from Mount Vernon College (a women's college in the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C.) in 1941, and finally from Baylor University in Waco in 1943.
After marrying Joe Reeves in 1944, she lived briefly in San Diego, California, and Pensacola, Florida as the bride of a flight surgeon in the Navy. After the war, they lived in Dallas, Texas, and Beaumont, Texas before settling down in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama where Joe was a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama medical school. During the next twenty years in Birmingham, determined to keep up with Joe in everything he did, she became an avid sailor (competing in many races in Mobile Bay), golfer, and even scuba diver (completing her first 100' dive at the age of 50 in the Bahamas).
After she and Joe moved home to Beaumont in 1975, she took up painting and sculpting, tennis, which she played often at Beaumont Country Club, and at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas during the 70's and 80's. She also loved bridge which she played as often as possible until her final illness.
Much beloved by her children and grandchildren, Linda Reeves Wielchowsky, of Houston, Texas, Joseph Michael Reeves of Birmingham, Alabama, David Nash Scott Reeves of Houston Texas, Lauren Reeves Flink of Boston, Massachusetts, Lindsay Elizabeth Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, Skylar Brooke Reeves of Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Reeves Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, and Joseph Nash Ryan Reeves of Houston, "Miss Ellie" as she was affectionately known by many who were close to her will be truly missed. Her kindness, her love for friends and family, her joy of living, her absolute love and devotion to her husband, and her sweet, uncomplaining attitude in the face of her own illness made her admired and treasured by all who knew her.
Born in Waco Texas on August 21st, 1921, to Elihu Reuel Nash and Louise Higginbotham Nash, she was the youngest of five children. As Eleanor Frances Nash, she graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas in 1939, and from Mount Vernon College (a women's college in the Georgetown district of Washington, D.C.) in 1941, and finally from Baylor University in Waco in 1943.
After marrying Joe Reeves in 1944, she lived briefly in San Diego, California, and Pensacola, Florida as the bride of a flight surgeon in the Navy. After the war, they lived in Dallas, Texas, and Beaumont, Texas before settling down in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama where Joe was a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama medical school. During the next twenty years in Birmingham, determined to keep up with Joe in everything he did, she became an avid sailor (competing in many races in Mobile Bay), golfer, and even scuba diver (completing her first 100' dive at the age of 50 in the Bahamas).
After she and Joe moved home to Beaumont in 1975, she took up painting and sculpting, tennis, which she played often at Beaumont Country Club, and at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas during the 70's and 80's. She also loved bridge which she played as often as possible until her final illness.
Much beloved by her children and grandchildren, Linda Reeves Wielchowsky, of Houston, Texas, Joseph Michael Reeves of Birmingham, Alabama, David Nash Scott Reeves of Houston Texas, Lauren Reeves Flink of Boston, Massachusetts, Lindsay Elizabeth Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, Skylar Brooke Reeves of Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Reeves Wielchowsky of Austin, Texas, and Joseph Nash Ryan Reeves of Houston, "Miss Ellie" as she was affectionately known by many who were close to her will be truly missed. Her kindness, her love for friends and family, her joy of living, her absolute love and devotion to her husband, and her sweet, uncomplaining attitude in the face of her own illness made her admired and treasured by all who knew her.
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