JOHN W. REID II

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for former Madison County Prosecuting Attorney John W. Reid II of Fredericktown will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the United Methodist Church. The Revs. Don Kuehle and Shelby Barnhart will officiate.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Reid, 50 years old, died in a two-vehicle accident Monday, Jan. 28, 1991, near Fredericktown.

He was born April 11, 1940, in Cape, son of John W. and Grace Reid. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1962, and received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1964.

Reid served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge James H. Merideth from 1964-65. He began his law practice at Fredericktown in July 1965, and was a partner in the firm currently known as Schnapp, Graham, Reid and Fulton for 25 years.

He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, all state and federal courts in Missouri, and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He successfully argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reid served as prosecuting attorney of Madison County from November 1968 until retiring Dec. 31, 1990. He was honored at a dinner last November, at which time he was also made an "honorary state trooper" by the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Among those attending the recognition event were Attorney General William L. Webster, Capt. Donald Shelton of the highway patrol, Circuit Judges Kenneth Pratte and Stanley Murphy of St. Francois County, Sheriff Verlon Young, and Dr. R.C. Briner of the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Lab.

Reid was a member of the Missouri Bar, American Bar Association, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and Fredericktown United Methodist Church. He was a past president of Fredericktown Rotary Club, where he was recently honored as a Paul Harris Fellow.

Survivors include his wife, Susan; three sons, John Reid of Washington, D.C., Scott Reid of Huntington Beach, Calif., Patrick Reid, a student at Southeast Missouri State University, and his parents of Cape.