Virginia Reimert, 85, widow of William D. Reimert who was former president and executive editor of the Call-Chronicle Newspapers, was found dead yesterday in her home at 6650 Mountain Road in Upper Macungie Township, by a neighbor.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by Lehigh County Deputy Coroner Michael E. Nagel.
Her death was ruled a suicide from an overdose of medication by Coroner Robert C. Weir.
State police at Fogelsville said they were called to the scene by the neighbor at 1:39 p.m.
Mrs. Reimert had lived with her late husband at the The Dogwoods, the house between Macungie and Hensingerville which they had remodeled over the years.
Reimert, who died in 1969, was an editor for 40 years and was considered one of the leading newspapermen of his time. He spent his entire career at the Call-Chronicle and spent his life building the newspapers and the Lehigh Valley community.
Reimert authored popular newspaper columns depicting the wonders of nature and the moods and seasons of the woodlands, valleys and hillsides near their rustic home.
In 1975, Mrs. Reimert established the William D. Reimert Lecture Series in perpetuity by way of an endowment presented to Cedar Crest College in memory of her husband.
The public series brings to the Allentown campus outstanding speakers on newsworthy topics.
Mrs. Reimert had toured Europe with her husband in 1951 and traveled with Reimert throughout his newspaper career.
A graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, she studied occupational therapy and later worked at hospitals in Pittsburgh and Bethlehem.
She met Reimert while she was working in Bethlehem and they were married in 1932.
A member of St John's Lutheran Church, Allentown, she was born in Leitchfield, Ky., a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William G. Moorman.
Surivivors include a brother, John Moorman of Western Springs, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. L. T. Proctor of Charlotte, N.C.
The Schmoyer Fuenral Home, Breinigsville, is in charge of arrangements.
