Anne Pauline Prisco Reynolds was born in 1930, at home in Pelham, NY, the youngest of five children born to Italian immigrant parents. She met James A. Reynolds of Tulsa, OK, when he was stationed at a nearby Army installation, and they married in St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Pelham on May 3, 1953. They were married for thirty-six years until Jim’s death in 1989. Over the years, they made their home first in Albany, NY, followed by Northern Virginia (Fairlington, Falls Church, and Springfield) and Oradell, NJ.

Anne ultimately lived in Oradell for forty-four years, where she was very involved in local organizations. She served with the Oradell Zoning Board and the Pascack Valley Community Development Committee, and was president of the Oradell Senior Club for five years. She was a founding member and on the Board of Directors of the Oradell Arts and Business Coalition. She helped found the Water Works Conservancy, which was a grassroots effort to save the historic Hackensack Water Works site in Oradell, and served on the Board and as corresponding secretary for years. She created the Oradell People Uniting with Students organization and was chairman for 12 years, bringing adult volunteers into Oradell Elementary School to work with the children. She received the Oradell Volunteer Award, and in 1999, was named Bergen County (NJ) Volunteer of the Year.

Anne was a member of the Book and Needle Club of Oradell, NJ, part of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC), and moved her membership to The Woman’s Club of Williamsburg-GFWC when she moved to Williamsburg, VA, for a total of forty-three years as a GFWC clubwoman. She regularly attended the NJ State Federation of Women’s Clubs annual convention in Atlantic City, and served multiple terms in various officer and chairman positions for the Oradell Book and Needle Club.

Anne, along with husband Jim, were avid bicyclists and members of Potomac Pedalers Touring Club in Northern Virginia, the Bicycle Touring Club of North Jersey (where Anne served a term as president), and the then-League of American Wheelmen (now League of American Bicyclists) for many years. She completed six century rides (100 miles in one day) and seven metric century rides on her own and on a tandem bike with her husband, and more than a dozen multi-day rallies, including 11 Great Eastern Rallies.

When she decided to learn French, she arranged to attend French classes at the local high school, studying along with the high school students for four years, and was named an honorary member of the high school’s French Honor Society in 2001.

She and Jim took multiple trips to the American Southwest, where they fell in love with Native American rugs, especially rugs created by the Two Grey Hills tribe, and Native American pottery and baskets, and always returned home with something to add to their extensive collection.

Anne loved opera and had season tickets to the Metropolitan Opera for years, collecting thirty-five librettos and twenty-two autographed stagebills from operas that she had attended, including from her favorite opera, La Traviata, which she especially loved because of its beautiful arias.

She worked as a legal secretary and law librarian for a number of lawyer’s offices, including one in which she computerized the library’s lending system. She also worked as an office manager for a series of medical and dental practices.

She was active in her church, St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church of Oradell, where she sang in the choir and was a soloist and served as lector.

In 2014, she moved to Williamsburg Landing in Williamsburg, VA, to be closer to family. She is pre-deceased by her parents Maria and Michele Prisco and siblings Anthony Prisco, Frank Prisco, Jeanne Maffucci, and Mildred Cunningham. She is survived by her son, Bruce Reynolds (Robin Haertle) of Redmond, WA, daughter, Jan Walker (Terry) of Williamsburg, grandchildren; Victoria Bodanyi (Raul Gonzalez), Thomas Walker (Stephanie Nelson), Saul Reynolds-Haertle, and Isaac Reynolds. She was beloved Nonna to great-grandsons Gergo Gonzalez, Mischa Gonzalez and Theodore Walker. She doted on her grandchildren, and was a treasured presence at their birthday parties, graduations and weddings. Her apartment in Williamsburg was filled with photos of her great-grandchildren and she had created a gallery for their art work on her walls.

A private memorial service will be held later this summer. If you’d like to donate in memory of Anne, she would have appreciated donations to the Water Works Conservancy in Oradell (https://www.hwwc.org/). Cremation Society of Virginia is handling the arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.cremate.org.