Tractors Equipment dealer, museum founder Stan Reynolds, 88

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Memorial services are expected to be held later this spring for the auto and ag equipment dealer whose collections of vintage iron were the basis for the Reynolds-Alberta Museum.

Stan Reynolds of Wetaskiwin, Alta. died last Thursday in Edmonton at age 88, the provincial government reported Monday.

Reynolds? "lifelong interest in machines of all types led him to assemble a very valuable collection which he generously donated to the people of Alberta," Premier Alison Redford said in a statement Monday. "His vision, irrepressible spirit and example of public service will be sorely missed."

Julia Parrish of CTV Edmonton reported Monday that Reynolds had been in declining health in recent years, and that a formal memorial is to be held sometime this spring.

Born in Wetaskiwin in 1923, Reynolds set up a used-auto dealership there shortly after his discharge from the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1945. He later expanded that dealership to include sales of new and used cars, trucks, farm machinery, industrial equipment, house trailers and airplanes.

Later in the 1940s, after acquiring a 1911 Overland touring car as part of a trade-in, Reynolds began collecting vintage autos and over time expanded his collections into tractors, steam engines and aircraft.

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