Alvin D. Reed
Alvin D. Reed
Alvin D. Reed
1931-2025
Alvin D. Reed, 93, of Lincoln, Nebraska, formerly of Clearmont, Missouri, died April 17, 2025 at Harbor House, Lincoln. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at the Clearmont Christian Church. Alvin’s son, Brian Reed, will officiate the service. Burial will be at the Clearmont Cemetery. Open visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church prior to the service. Memorials are to be determined. Memories can be shared with the family at www.nodawayvalleyfuneralhome.com. Arrangements were entrusted to the Nodaway Valley Funeral Home of Clarinda.
He was born December 24, 1931 in Mitchell, South Dakota. He was the oldest of four children, two brothers and a sister, born to George W. and Josie F. Reed. He grew up on his parents’ farm west of Carthage, South Dakota. They faithfully attended the Carthage Christian Church where his father was an elder and his mother was a teacher. At an early age he was involved in farming along with the rest of the family.
Alvin attended one room country schools for eight years and then the Carthage High School where he graduated in 1949. He enrolled in Dakota Bible College in Huron, graduating in 1954. The following year he graduated from Nebraska Christian College (NCC) in Norfolk. During that year the Clearmont Christian Church (CCC) was in need of a minister and they asked him to be their minister. For six months he drove from Norfolk to Clearmont each week-end.
On August 17,1956 he married Mary Inez Cape at the Norfolk Christian Church. Mary Inez served the Clearmont Christian Church as organist, Sunday School teacher, and Youth leader. As an RN she was often called on to help people with their illness.
They have two children. Their daughter Susan is an RN working at Bryan Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. Brian retired from 22 years as a chaplain in the US Army and is now serving as a hospital chaplain at Christus Health – Westover Hills, San Antonio, Texas. They have four grandsons, Nicholas (Hannah) and Nathan (Lindsey) Brown, Gabriel (Maggie) and Grant (Caroline) Reed and a granddaughter, Brianna Reed, who went home to the Lord in 2005. They now have three great-grandsons, Lincoln Brown, Liam and Aiden Reed and four great-granddaughters, Waverly, Remi and Isla Brown and Emilia Reed.
Following graduation from NCC, Alvin oved to Clearmont and the church continued to grow until Sunday attendance was over 100. He was the minister at CCC for 45 years when he retired. For 50 years he also drove a school bus for West Nodaway schools.
Alvin and his two brothers owned the family farm in South Dakota. For several years they got together for “The Reed Brothers Annual Bean Harvest Reunion.”
Following retirement Alvin was called to supply preach for churches without a minister. He continued to serve Clearmont Christian Church as teacher of the Adult Sunday School class for 15 years.
Alvin was asked to be Clearmont City Clerk in 1956—an office he held for 60 years. From 1962-2016 he was elected as Trustee for the Atchison Township Road District.
Alvin was preceded in death by his wife Mary Inez Reed, brother Don Reed, brothers-in-law Lauren Mosier and Gordon D French, sister-in-law Sharon Reed, and his granddaughter Brianna Reed.
Alvin will be missed by many ministry family and friends and the Clearmont Christian Church and Clearmont community.
