Melvin, of East Lansing, died, Monday. He was the son of Raymond and Mabel Reiter.
He graduated from District 119 elementary school in New Lenox, Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, and University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His degree was a bachelor of science with honors in architectural engineering. Married Berle Garrett of Dowagiac, Michigan, on August 20, 1949.
Their children are Amy (Daryl) Davis, Bart (Marian), Jane (Timothy) Watters, and Frank (Cathy), grandchildren, Eva, Nicole, William and Lauren, great grandson, Joseph, a brother, Robert (Dorothy) Reiter, a sister Evelyn (Wade) Krohn and several loving nieces and nephews.
Worked nine years in privately practicing architectural offices in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Began working as architect in the Building Division, State Department of Administration, in November 1958, retiring from this same working group in December 1989. His forte was long-range institutional planning and is responsible to a large extent for walkable campuses at Michigan Technological University and Central Michigan University.
He was always active in voluntary organizations and held many roles and offices in them. He is nationally known as author of a standard catalog of dairy and milk trade tokens and related exonumia and also as a long-time columnist on the same subject in the now-defunct quarterly newsletter, Creamers.
A Gathering of Remembrance will be Saturday, December 11, 2010, at the Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Delhi Chapel.
Those wishing to do so may contribute to Michigan Token and Medal Society, Okemos, MI.
He graduated from District 119 elementary school in New Lenox, Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, and University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His degree was a bachelor of science with honors in architectural engineering. Married Berle Garrett of Dowagiac, Michigan, on August 20, 1949.
Their children are Amy (Daryl) Davis, Bart (Marian), Jane (Timothy) Watters, and Frank (Cathy), grandchildren, Eva, Nicole, William and Lauren, great grandson, Joseph, a brother, Robert (Dorothy) Reiter, a sister Evelyn (Wade) Krohn and several loving nieces and nephews.
Worked nine years in privately practicing architectural offices in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Began working as architect in the Building Division, State Department of Administration, in November 1958, retiring from this same working group in December 1989. His forte was long-range institutional planning and is responsible to a large extent for walkable campuses at Michigan Technological University and Central Michigan University.
He was always active in voluntary organizations and held many roles and offices in them. He is nationally known as author of a standard catalog of dairy and milk trade tokens and related exonumia and also as a long-time columnist on the same subject in the now-defunct quarterly newsletter, Creamers.
A Gathering of Remembrance will be Saturday, December 11, 2010, at the Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Delhi Chapel.
Those wishing to do so may contribute to Michigan Token and Medal Society, Okemos, MI.
Melvin, of East Lansing, died, Monday. He was the son of Raymond and Mabel Reiter.
He graduated from District 119 elementary school in New Lenox, Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, and University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His degree was a bachelor of science with honors in architectural engineering. Married Berle Garrett of Dowagiac, Michigan, on August 20, 1949.
Their children are Amy (Daryl) Davis, Bart (Marian), Jane (Timothy) Watters, and Frank (Cathy), grandchildren, Eva, Nicole, William and Lauren, great grandson, Joseph, a brother, Robert (Dorothy) Reiter, a sister Evelyn (Wade) Krohn and several loving nieces and nephews.
Worked nine years in privately practicing architectural offices in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Began working as architect in the Building Division, State Department of Administration, in November 1958, retiring from this same working group in December 1989. His forte was long-range institutional planning and is responsible to a large extent for walkable campuses at Michigan Technological University and Central Michigan University.
He was always active in voluntary organizations and held many roles and offices in them. He is nationally known as author of a standard catalog of dairy and milk trade tokens and related exonumia and also as a long-time columnist on the same subject in the now-defunct quarterly newsletter, Creamers.
A Gathering of Remembrance will be Saturday, December 11, 2010, at the Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Delhi Chapel.
Those wishing to do so may contribute to Michigan Token and Medal Society, Okemos, MI.
He graduated from District 119 elementary school in New Lenox, Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, and University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His degree was a bachelor of science with honors in architectural engineering. Married Berle Garrett of Dowagiac, Michigan, on August 20, 1949.
Their children are Amy (Daryl) Davis, Bart (Marian), Jane (Timothy) Watters, and Frank (Cathy), grandchildren, Eva, Nicole, William and Lauren, great grandson, Joseph, a brother, Robert (Dorothy) Reiter, a sister Evelyn (Wade) Krohn and several loving nieces and nephews.
Worked nine years in privately practicing architectural offices in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Began working as architect in the Building Division, State Department of Administration, in November 1958, retiring from this same working group in December 1989. His forte was long-range institutional planning and is responsible to a large extent for walkable campuses at Michigan Technological University and Central Michigan University.
He was always active in voluntary organizations and held many roles and offices in them. He is nationally known as author of a standard catalog of dairy and milk trade tokens and related exonumia and also as a long-time columnist on the same subject in the now-defunct quarterly newsletter, Creamers.
A Gathering of Remembrance will be Saturday, December 11, 2010, at the Palmer Bush & Jensen Family Funeral Homes, Holt Delhi Chapel.
Those wishing to do so may contribute to Michigan Token and Medal Society, Okemos, MI.
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