LAS VEGAS: The late Sen. Harry Reid was buried Thursday in a desert cemetery in Las Vegas and the US Capitol in his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, to honor his decades shaping state and national policies.
Family members wanted the graveside service to be private, said Brian Ahern, a former Reed Press associate and speechwriter who is now a spokesperson for MGM Resorts International and a representative for the Reeds family. Ahern only confirmed that the burial had taken place.
Reed died on December 28 at home in Henderson, Nevada, of 82 complications from pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Landra Reid, five children and grandchildren who knew him as Poppy.
President Joe Biden, who called the former Democratic Party leader one of the greatest Senate majority leaders in history, attended a memorial that drew more than 2,000 invited guests to a concert hall in Las Vegas last Saturday . Biden also visited the coffin draped in Reeds’ flag as Reed lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Wednesday.
Reid served longer in Congress than anyone in Nevada. He was the Senate majority leader during two presidential terms: Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama. He retired in 2016.
Remembered by many for the abrupt end of the telephone conversation, Reid was a belligerent former boxer-turned-lawyer who was widely acknowledged as one of the toughest bargainers in Congress.
He is credited with securing a national economic reform bill during the Great Recession and introducing Obama’s landmark health care legislation through the Senate.
In Nevada, he was elected to the state legislature at age 28 and became lieutenant governor at age 30. In 1970, Gov. Mike Okalaghan’s running mate.
In 1980, as head of the Nevada Gaming Commission investigating organized crime, Reid was the target of a car bomb that failed to detonate.
In Searchlight, which was once a gold mining boom town with fewer than 500 residents about an hour’s drive south of Las Vegas, Reid’s father, a hardened rock miner, killed himself when he was 58. . Reid’s mother did the laundry for Bordello.
Today, Harry Reeds is named after the town’s primary school and a road that leads to the cemetery where his parents, other family members and now Reed himself are buried.
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