Wayne Walter Reeder was born on 25 October 1960, in Caldwell, Sumner, Kansas, United States. He died on 30 September 1981, at the age of 20.
English: occupational name for someone who used reeds as a roofing material (a thatcher), a derivative of Middle English rede ‘reed’ + -er. Compare Reed and Redman .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clearing, a derivative of Middle English rede, ride, rude ‘clearing’ (see Reed ) + -er, synonymous and interchangeable with atte Rede, atte Rude ‘at the clearing’. This type of name, composed of a topographic term + -er, is common in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and it is also found in Essex.
Dutch and German: variant of Reder 3.
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