We appreciate your patience as we continue to create a healthy and safe learning environment for all the children, instructors and staff members involved with the program.Īll sessions still run for two weeks, Monday through Friday and are 45-60 minutes long each day. Thank you for your interest in our award-winning swim lessons program. West Chester, PA 19380Īrrangements by DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home of West Chester, PA 610.696.1181 Swim Lessons Information - Please Read Below In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. He was preceded in death by his brother Robert and his sisters Agnes Rump and Eileen Stecyk.
Jordan Brown, Olivia Brown and Reilly Josephine Quinlan, and many devoted nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews. He is survived by his wife, Dolores (Santiso) Reilly as well as his sister and brother- in- law: Nancy and Louis Bachofer, his 2 daughters: Ellen (Jeffrey Brown) and Megan (Patrick Quinlan), a son Patrick (Paula Holzman), and four grandchildren: Ryan Brown. He adored managing the swim club where he was instrumental in adding a new regulation sized pool along with new swimming lesson programs, after school programs and his much loved "100 Lap Club". He worked as a "stroke and turn" judge throughout his volunteer career with the SCCSL and managed Wedgwood Swim Club for over 20 years. He always fondly recalled forming the league as he sat in a local bar with other "swim dads" organizing a league that is still a West Chester staple in summer aquatics today. He was known to his students, friends and family as kind, fair, and an advocate of equal rights.Įdward Reilly was also one of the founding members of the Southern Chester County Swim League. He is one of the towns last historians who remembers the days of Woolworths and Turks Head drug stores where "tabs" were held for the oldest families in town. He also loved starring in the annual performance of The Nutcracker at West Chester University.Ī walk through downtown West Chester with Edward Reilly was a lesson in history as he shared his childhood memories and little known real estate legacy in each and very block. He loved teaching his students about the many important and obscure countries of Africa, including DiJibouti. Edward was employed by and devoted to the Avon Grove School District for 27 years.Įdward enjoyed many years as his students' most favorite teacher of social studies and geography. Agnes High School in 1950 and after serving in the army from 1954-57 he earned a degree in education from West Chester State Teachers College and a masters degree from Cheyney University. Born Novemin West Chester, PA he was the son of the late Colonel Joseph Reilly and the late Anna Spor Reilly.Įdward graduated from St. Reilly, 88 of West Chester, PA passed away Sunday Februat his home in West Chester.
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