Time change for Walt Reardon's services

He was 77.

Reardon was on vacation in Hawaii with his wife of 58 years, Barbara "Pat" Reardon, his youngest daughter, Kathleen Reardon, and his granddaughter, Alex.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at St. Anthony's Church in Upland.

Reardon and his wife have been taking trips to the Napili Kai resort in Maui for more than 30 years.

He was sitting on a beach with his wife when he suffered the stroke.

"I just have to say the last two days we had together were just magical. They were really special," said Kathleen Reardon of Summerland. "It was really nice, and I'm just honored to have been there."

Walter Reardon was city treasurer from 1980 to his retirement in November.

"What was nice about Walt was I can't remember as long as I was there, nobody ever ran against him, and I think that goes a lot to say in terms of a person, he didn't politicize the office," said Councilman Brendan Brandt, who is a longtime friend of the family.

"It wasn't controversial. He ran it with a steady hand. He didn't make enemies, and I think his underlying goal as it was always that he just had a real love for the city."

Reardon enjoyed sailing, jogging and was an UCLA football season-ticket holder.

Reardon was born Oct. 3, 1931, in Massachusetts. He moved in the 1930s to Los Angeles with his family, and later served in the U.S. Naval Reserve and was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska.

After his service, Reardon graduated from UCLA with a degree in accounting. He later received his certified public accountant certificate as well as an MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Reardon relocated his family in 1967 to Upland and, in 1971, founded his own CPA firm, which became known as Reardon & McCallum and later merged into Mellon, Johnson and Reardon.

"No one I know in my whole life has ever said anything bad about him. Everybody at work loved him, everyone in his office loved him," Kathleen Reardon said.

"I worked with him over a few different tax seasons - he would take the time every morning he would go from person to person and say `Hi, how's it going? How is the family?' He genuinely cared about people."