.
For now, though, we will reflect
especially on just three qualities of
Reade’s. We can picture that these are
three among many that the Lord has led
Reade into in this life and that the Lord
is now leading Reade onward into, even
more, in the life to come. They are:
• Reade’s keen intellect
• His calm and patient reliability
A color blow up of the photo of Reade
Genzlinger’s beloved Super Cub was displayed
• His devotion to the well-being of
below the pulpit during his memorial address.
those in his life, from clients in
business to his own family
Bryce Reade Genzlinger was born August 22, 1954, the oldest child of
Bryce and Doris Genzlinger. He was born at Abington Hospital, the same
hospital where just a little earlier that summer Michael and Geneva Pitcairn
had welcomed the birth of a daughter . . . but more on her later.
In Reade’s growing up years, the Genzlinger family moved several times.
By the time Reade was in seventh and eighth grade, they were living in Puerto
Rico, where memories include outings on the family sailboat. His siblings and
other friends remember the Reade of that time (who would have been about
13) as a more-than-competent sailor.
The sailboat may have had an outboard motor but that didn’t mean it
worked reliably, so on returning to the harbor, with father Bryce at the helm,
it fell to young Reade to get it all timed just right, lowering the sail as they
approached the slip, leaping off the boat onto the dock and tying the boat off,
all the while assigning appropriately doable tasks to his younger siblings.
For those who know Reade, it’s probably not hard to picture a scene like
this, competently and efficiently handled. Reade always had a keen, inquisitive
mind, able to figure out a good way, and then the right way and eventually the
best way to do things. Lynn still has a clear picture in her mind from 30 some
years ago, looking out the window of their home in Horsham, of Reade, sitting
outside in the summer heat, studying intently to qualify for a pilot’s license.
Once he had passed, the very next day he took Lynn and Kyle (still an infant in
the car seat strapped into the plane) up for a ride.
When someone expressed surprise that Lynn would let Reade take her
and their baby up in an airplane so soon after first qualifying, she said it
never occurred to her to question whether Reade knew what he was doing.
He was always so careful and so exacting in his approach to things. He was a
perfectionist who didn’t expect perfection out of others but only himself.
A batch of “Reade’s Almost Perfect Oatmeal Cookies” are to be baked at
347° for 13½ minutes. An attorney associated with Reade in business in recent
151