Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Guthrie, Delores Lillian Reese October 5, 2011
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
GUTHRIE
DELORES LILLIAN REESE 
1929 - 2011. One of Pittsburgh's best-known fashion models of the 1950s and 
60s, Delores Lillian Reese Guthrie, a familiar figure at Kaufmann's Department 
store downtown, and at the Pittsburgh Athletic Club's noon fashion shows, died 
peacefully October 5, at the Capital Halquist Memorial Hospice Center in 
Arlington, Virginia. She was 81, and had been a resident of Reston, Virginia, 
the past twenty-one years. Cause of death were complications from Pulmonary 
Hypertension, a heart-lung disorder, as announced by her former husband, and 
friend, Andrew Guthrie, a retired NBC News and Voice of America correspondent. 
She is survived by her son, Ian of Boulder, Colorado; a sister Ruth Craig, and 
brother Robert Reese, of Whitehall Borough, Pittsburgh; nieces Traci Ann 
Thompson, Alice Ann Reese and Maura Ann Reese, all of Pittsburgh, and nephews 
Carl Reese of Poway, California, Brian Reese of Oceanside, California, and John 
Reese of Butler, PA; her brothers Murray and Eugene, of Pittsburgh, and her 
nephew, Paul Reese, of Richmond, Virginia, predeceased her. "Dee" Guthrie, as 
she preferred to be called, was born December 7th, 1929 and grew up in the 
Knoxville neighborhood. A 1948 graduate of South Hills High School, she went to 
work for Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, which became part of U.S. Steel. 
Within a few years, she was executive secretary to then-CEO Roger Blough's top 
Pittsburgh-based assistant. At the same time, she began modeling for Kaufmann's 
Department store and appeared frequently in Kaufmann's ads in The Pittsburgh 
Press and Post-Gazette, and also modeled at the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. She 
also volunteered to dance with pscychologically disabled World War Two veterans 
at the local VA hospital. Moving to New York City in 1962 to further her 
fashion career, she married NBC News writer Andrew Guthrie, and followed him to 
Hong Kong when he was assigned to cover the Viet Nam War. Later, in Cleveland, 
Ohio, she became chairman of the local UNICEF committee, and a congregant at 
Trinty Episcopal Cathedral, where she was lauded in a Cleveland Press review of 
the service for her meaningful reading of scripture. Later in life, she joined 
the international law firm of White & Case's Washington office, where she was 
an executive secretary to former Nixon and Ford Administration Deputy 
Transportation Secretary John Barnum after he returned to private practice. She 
was divorced in 1987. She was a founding member of the Smithsonian 
Institution's Museum of the American Indian, and a member of The National 
Cathedral, where she helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity. She was, for 
decades, a supporting member of the Metropolitan Opera. At her request there 
will be no funeral or memorial service. Memorial contributions may be made to 
the U.S. committee for UNICEF, Heifer.org, The Wolf Conservation Fund 
(www.wolf.org) the Red Wolf Coalition (redwolf@redwolves.com) and The 
Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian. 


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