CLAUDE P. REYNOLDS, age 85, a resident of Irving since 1968, died Monday, August 3, 2015 at a local care center. Born May 15, 1930 in Farmerville, Louisiana, he was the son of the late Perry A. Reynolds and Eloise E. Pritchard Reynolds. He graduated from Louisiana State University where he was active with the Delta Chi Fraternity. He married Maria E Lorber in Germany in 1954. He served in the U S Army during the Korean Conflict and Viet Nam War, retiring as a Lt. Colonel in 1972. He had received the Army Commendation Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, and National Defense Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster. He worked for the United States Food and Drug Administration as an investigator for 20 years retiring in 1992. He was a member of Oak Haven United Methodist Church, and the Mercedes Benz Club. Preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Alice Clark, and by his wife, Maria E. Reynolds April 22, 2013, he is survived by his daughter, Petra Ahrens and grandsons, Blake and Trevor Ahrens, all of Flower Mound. The family will receive friends 6:00 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Donnellys Colonial Funeral Home, 606 West Airport Freeway in Irving. The funeral will be 1:00 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel. Burial with military honors will follow at Oak Grove Memorial Gardens.