Obituaries

Frank Miller ReynoldsGovernment Administrator

Frank Miller Reynolds, 91, a government administrator who worked at several agencies before retiring from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, died Jan. 13 at the Grand Oaks senior living residence in Washington. He had heart disease.

Mr. Reynolds was born in Tulsa and graduated from the University of Oklahoma law school in 1939. He then moved to Washington in 1940 to join the Social Security Board.

He served in the Navy as an electrical engineer. After World War II, he worked as a civilian with the Navy's Office of General Counsel, the Office of Naval Research and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He left the Pentagon in 1954 and worked with the Institute for Defense Analyses and was an officer and vice president of the Logistics Management Institute.

He returned to government service in 1976 and was director of administration for the Uniformed Services University for two years before retiring.

He then became director of patient relations at Sibley Memorial Hospital and a consultant with the National Executive Service Corps and the United Seniors Health Cooperative.

Mr. Reynolds also graduated from George Washington University's law school and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He was a lecturer in management research at GWU's School of Engineering.

For several years, Mr. Reynolds was a member of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance's pistol team and achieved national ranking. He was an avid traveler and golfer, and he was a member of Congressional Country Club and a loyal fan of the Oklahoma Sooners. He enjoyed playing the piano and listening to big band music.

Mr. Reynolds, a former Potomac resident, was one of the original members of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac and for several years was a member of the vestry and the choir.

His wife, Barbara Grey MacWilliams Reynolds, died in 1988.

Survivors include three children, Susan Polinsky of Arlington County and Trenton, S.C., Ellen Maldonado of Arlington and Frank Reynolds of Rockville; and one granddaughter.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb