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Francis C “Jack” Reith
BIRTH 4 Sep 1914
Iowa, USA
DEATH 3 Jul 1960 (aged 45)
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Montgomery, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Reith was born September 4, 1914 in Iowa to Francis S. Reith and Emma Carlson Reith married widow Maxine Wallace Minton in Holdenville, Oklahoma on September 20, 1945. They had 3 children, Francis, Jr, Donna and Charles.
Reith enlisted in the Army on January 13, 1942, in Forrest, Mississippi.
At the 1957 Indianapolis 500 he was selcted to drive the Indianapolis 500 pace cars a 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser.