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Mary Scott Fayé Ballantine Reinhardt, following a stroke died, peacefully at her home in La Conner on Monday, August 24, 2015. She was 88 years old.

Mary was born February 10, 1927 in Makaweli, Kauai to parents Lindsay Anton and Gertrude Leilani Scott Fayé. A descendant of missionary and sugar industry families, Mary attended Punahou School in Honolulu until World War II broke out, and she was sent to school in the San Francisco Bay area, returning to Waimea to finish high school in 1945. Following the war, she attended secretarial and art schools in New York City before returning to Honolulu to work as a legal secretary.

On a return trip to the islands, Mary met Robert J. “Bob” Ballantine of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, a B-24 pilot and captain in the Army Air Corps stationed in the Pacific. They were married in Waimea in 1947, and photos of the wedding were published in “Life Magazine.” While raising four children on Kauai, Mary found time to teach Sunday school and lead Girl Scout and Cub Scout troops. She was widely known for her cooking and entertaining.

In 1967, Mary and Bob moved the family to California, where Mary became an avid golfer, won several club championships and served as president of the Northern California Women’s Golf Association.

After Bob passed away in 1991, Mary married Will Reinhardt, a widower and former member of Bob’s WW II bomber crew, in 1993. In 1997, Will and Mary moved to Bend, OR, where Mary became active in the local chapter of the Red Cross. After Will died in 1999, Mary stayed on in Bend until moving to La Conner in 2002 to be closer to family.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Anna Thiele. She is survived by her brother, Lindsay “Tony” Faye, Jr. (Diane) of Koloa, HI and her sister, Linda Collins of Carpinteria, CA; her children, Linda Ballantine (Roland Matthews) of Bow, WA, Nancy Beaver (Jim Beaver) of Ashland, OR, David Ballantine (Dawn Emery Ballantine) of Boonville, CA and Jimmy Ballantine of Waimea, HI; as well as her grandchildren, Christopher Henderson, Dori Wechsler, Scott Beaver, Hallie Beaver, Adam Ballantine, Jeffrey Ballantine and Fanny Ballantine-Himburg, great-grandchildren Malia Henderson, Zachary Henderson, Mia Ballantine, Harper Ballantine, and soon to be born Mary Belle Ballantine.

Donations in her memory can be made to SPOT, Saving Pets One at a Time, PO Box 211, Burlington, WA, or the University of Hawaii Foundation for the Anna S. Sloggett Endowed Scholarship in Elementary Education at the University of Hawaii Foundation, 2444 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96828.