From "To Dad...with love," published June 24, 2014, online at http://courier-tribune.com/living/dad-love. In honor of Father's Day, The Courier-Tribune of Asheboro printed tributes written about fathers in the community. The tribute below was written about Obed Reitzel by his daughter, Winnie Reitzel Allred. Other fathers remembered by the newspaper include Ford Coleman by Gayle Coleman; James Upton by Doris Pope of Asheboro; Robert Edwin "Ed" Bass by Wilkes Macaulay; Elton Caviness by Trisha Caviness Ballance; John David Allred by Tim, Janine, Danny, Sharon and Pam; Gerald Steven Cagle by his sister Susan C. King; Jeff McDuffie by Jordan McDuffie; Joseph William Belle by Laura Davis; Isaac (Ike) Brown by Charlene Brown Welch; Edsel Hicks by Bradley Hicks; Donald Yow by Trisha, Gregg, Macey, Kynley and Will; Tony Brown by Brandy Brown; Dock Swaney by Carolyn Tysinger, Darrell, Jerry and Todd Swaney; William Henry West by Mabel West Pike; Rancie Lee (Bud) Moore Jr. by the McNeill, Moore and Lamb families. I hope each of these tributes finds its way into someone's family history.
My father was Obed Reitzel of Randleman. He was a World War I veteran. When we were growing up, he liked to move around a lot. He worked in textile and also was into mining. He worked in the coal mine in Bluefield, W.Va., also in the Egypt coal mine in Cumnock, N.C., in Lee County; also in the talc mine in Robbins, N.C.
He helped my mother, Mary Reitzel, with canning and washing clothes. Together they raised five children. He was the son of Michael Armstead and Alice Harrell Reitzel of Randleman.
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