IRA EVERETT "BUD" REED

MANNFORD -- Ira Everett "Bud" Reed, a former mayor of Mannford who saw the transition of the city to its current location, died Thursday, He was 89.

Services are set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church in Mannford under the direction of the Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home in Sand Springs.

Reed was born Oct. 16, 1916, to Mary (Tilley) and Vernon Reed in Creek County. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

He formerly owned and operated a garage and service station in Mannford.

In the early 1960s Mannford was relocated about three miles to the southeast to make way for a new arm of the Keystone Reservoir. The old location was flooded when the Keystone Dam was built on the Arkansas River. Reed was the last mayor of "old Mannford," and subsequently, the first mayor of "new Mannford."

He served as mayor from 1962 to 1967.

Reed was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Mannford Historical Society, Friends of the Library, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Oklahoma Museum Association, the Oklahoma Preservation Society and the Friendship Force Exchange Program.

He is survived by his wife Theresa Ann "Terri" Reed of Mannford; a daughter, Gayle Yvette Stinnet of Shawnee; a sister, Daisy Williams of Mannford; and 10 grandchildren.

Friends are contributing to the Bud Reed Memorial Fund in care of the American Heritage Bank in Mannford.