Elenah F. ‘Lea’ Reynolds

Elenah F. “Lea” Reynolds age 77 of Harwich MA, died Monday June 10th at her home. She was born on Friday September 6, 1946 in Marlborough, MA. She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Pearl Elenah (nee Beaton) Fielding.

On Saturday June 1, 1968 she married Duane B. Reynolds at Goddard Chapel at Tufts University, in Medford. A graduate of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy at Tufts University, she spent many years as a Therapist, a Consultant, and a Hospital Administrator, retiring from that profession in 1997.

She was a dedicated and devoted wife of a career US Air Force officer, she also worked at various times as a public relations agent in Montana, as a newspaper layout artist and a tax collector in Missouri, purchasing agent for a souvenir shop in Africa, a school teacher in Ohio, and the editor of a bulletin for advertising construction contract opportunities in Colorado. Accompanying her husband on a three year tour in Ethiopia, for her dedicated service to the military and local communities she was awarded admittance to the legendary court of the Queen of Sheba with the title of ‘Princess of the Nile’ by the Commander of the US Army Kagnew Station, Asmara, Ethiopia. She was well known by a number of Congressional wives for providing shopping tours of the city of Asmara. The Emperor of Ethiopia personally presented her with a small gold coin, thanking her for the service she had provided his nation during her time there.

Lea had a lifelong love of horses. She started Agordat Farms, a successful Arabian horse breeding, boarding and training business that she managed for over 30 years. A successful showman, she won numerous local, state, and national honors. Including a hug and kiss from actor Patrick Swayze as she exited the ring with his horse. Lea was asked to show one of Swayze’s horses because he arrived too late for the class. Lea had a long history of supporting local police departments in a number of roles, but primarily by providing equitation training to mounted officers. For her over 14 years of devoted work in supporting the Colorado Springs Police and El Paso County Sheriff, she was selected as the 2012 Volunteer of the Year.

Elenah is survived by husband Duane Reynolds, nieces Meredith Reynolds of Virginia, Marjory Reynolds of Pennsylvania, Joanne Reynolds of Kingston, Mass, and Melissa Reynolds of Harwich, Mass as well as nephew Matthew Reynolds of Virginia, and eight grandnieces and grandnephews.

  A Celebration of her life will be held at Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, 40 MacArthur Blvd. Bourne, MA and her ashes will be interred at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne later this summer at a date to be announced.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made in Elenah’s name; by check to the El Paso County Sheriff Office 27 E. Vermijo Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 with a notation “for the mounted unit”.

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