Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 6, 1993 TAG: 9303060124
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Because of a production error, the following paragraphs were dropped from a page in Friday's Extra. Here is the missing copy:\ "She's always doing things for different people," said Walter Bousman of Ridgeway, who's known Reynolds for years. One Saturday night in January found Reynolds dancing and working on a fund-raiser for Seth Hughes, a 5-year-old boy in her community with leukemia. Reynolds pretty much organized the benefit dance and breakfast sponsored by the Rangeley Ruritans, of which she is a member.
At the dance, the Patrick Henry Travelers entertained the crowd of about 80. For the auction held during the dance, Reynolds donated several items, solicited other donations and helped spot bids.
The Ruritans raised $2,000 from the dance and another $200 from the breakfast. When the little boy died a week after returning from a trip to Disney World made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Ruritans decided to donate the breakfast proceeds to the foundation in his honor, Reynolds said.
Since her retirement from DuPont last year, Reynolds has worked three days a week selling lamps and shades at The Lighting Center in Danville. It gives her more time to learn to play the dulcimer, for macrame and to crochet. She thought about giving up flatfooting last year but didn't want to give up her job and dancing at the same time.
Arthritis in her knees may force her to retire from dancing. "They're about to give out on me," Reynolds said. "Sometimes I think I'm really burning the floor up and I'll see it on video, and it looks like I'm waltzing."
But when you're Pearlie Reynolds it's hard to give up dancing. "I think I'd really miss it," she said.
It would miss her, too. "Next time I see her I'm going to see if she'll go to Maine. We've been doing that [festival] for 16 years." said Johnson, who recently suffered a heart attack.
"She is highly respected in the clogging community, believe me," Angel said. "People love this lady."
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PEARLIE REYNOLDS