Robert Reed Private services will be...

Robert Reed

Private services will be held Feb. 15 for former 23-year Newport

Beach resident and former Newport Beach lifeguard chief Robert Reed.

Mr. Reed died Sunday. He was 86.

Born June 26, 1916, Mr. Reed was “a dynamic person who lived many

lives,” said son Robert Reed Jr. He worked for the Office of

Strategic Services during World War II, then owned a cattle ranch,

spent time in the oil business and led the marine safety squad in

Newport Beach.

In 1958, he began working in Newport Beach as the captain of the

Sea Watch, the city’s lifeguard boat that mostly searched for surfers

in need of rescue, Reed Jr. said. Mr. Reed then became the lifeguard

chief, a position later renamed marine safety director.

He is survived by wife of 33 years Roberta Reed; son Robert Reed

Jr.; daughters Gail Susan Ellis and Linda Reed; and 11 grandchildren.

Jack Richard Curley

A celebration of life will be held for former Daily Pilot general

manager Jack Richard Curley at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Marin Art and

Garden Center in Ross, Calif. Mr. Curley died Tuesday from

complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 74.

Born May 12, 1928, Mr. Curley graduated from UC Berkeley and the

UCLA Graduate School of Business Executive Program. He served in the

U.S. Army during the Korean conflict as a private and second

lieutenant. Among his duties was training paratroopers from the 82nd

and 101st Airborne Divisions.

Mr. Curley served as general manager of the Daily Pilot between

1964 and 1980 under then-Publisher Bob Weed. He also founded the

Citizens’ Bank of Costa Mesa. Mr. Curley served as a business

executive of two other newspapers, the Minneapolis Star & Tribune and

the San Fernando Valley Times.

After working at the Pilot, Mr. Curley served for 14 years as the

chief financial officer of the Koret Foundation, a $300-million

grant-making private foundation in San Francisco.

Mr. Curley is survived by wife of 23 years Elva Bennetts Curley

and seven children.

Howard R. Shook

Services for 15-year Corona del Mar resident Howard R. Shook will

be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Pacific View Chapel. Mr. Shook died

Monday of natural causes. He was 89. He is survived by sons Howard A.

and John P. Shook; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

* The Daily Pilot welcomes obituaries for residents or former

residents of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. If you want to have an

obituary printed in the Pilot, ask your mortuary to fax us the

information at (949) 646-4170 or call the newsroom at (949) 764-4324.