Singer, Songwriter. She and her brother grew up playing the violin. She married high-school sweetheart William "Bud" Reynolds in 1934. During the Depression she was a social worker and wrote columns for the "People's World." When the United States entered World War II she worked on an assembly line at a bomb factory. Following her father's death, she and Bud inherited a tailor shop in Long Beach, California, where she would meet folk singers and songwriters such as Pete Seeger. In 1962 she wrote her best-known song, "Little Boxes," about Daly City, California, whose houses looked like boxes from a distance. The song was a hit for Seeger first, in 1964; Reynolds recorded it herself in 1967. When she died, she was survived by a daughter, Nancy Reynolds Schimmel. Her ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay.
Singer, Songwriter. She and her brother grew up playing the violin. She married high-school sweetheart William "Bud" Reynolds in 1934. During the Depression she was a social worker and wrote columns for the "People's World." When the United States entered World War II she worked on an assembly line at a bomb factory. Following her father's death, she and Bud inherited a tailor shop in Long Beach, California, where she would meet folk singers and songwriters such as Pete Seeger. In 1962 she wrote her best-known song, "Little Boxes," about Daly City, California, whose houses looked like boxes from a distance. The song was a hit for Seeger first, in 1964; Reynolds recorded it herself in 1967. When she died, she was survived by a daughter, Nancy Reynolds Schimmel. Her ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay.
Bio by: Collins Crapo
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