Son of George Wash­ing­ton and Ethel Horn Rey­nolds, and ne­phew to Ish­am E. Rey­nolds, Will­iam was ed­u­cat­ed at Ok­la­ho­ma Bap­tist Un­i­ver­si­ty, South­west Mis­sou­ri State Coll­ege (AB 1942), South­west­ern Bap­tist The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry (MSM 1945), North Tex­as State Coll­ege (MM 1946), West­min­ster Choir Coll­ege, and the George Pea­bo­dy Coll­ege for Teach­ers (EdD 1961). While a stu­dent, he was a part time church mu­sic di­rect­or for se­ven years, then served as min­is­ter of mu­sic at the First Ba­ptist Church, Ard­more, Ok­la­ho­ma (1946-7); and the First Bap­tist Church, Ok­la­ho­ma Ci­ty, Ok­la­ho­ma (1947-55). In 1955, he joined the Church Mu­sic De­part­ment of the Bap­tist Sun­day School Board in Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see, ris­ing to de­part­ment head in 1971. He al­so served as mu­sic di­rect­or for meet­ings of the South­ern Bap­tist Con­ven­tion, the Bap­tist World Al­li­ance, and the Bap­tist Youth World Con­fer­ence. He com­posed and ar­ranged a va­ri­e­ty of sac­red mu­sic. His works in­clude:

• Hymns of Our Faith (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Broad­man Press, 1964)
• Companion to Bap­tist Hymn­al (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Broad­man Press, 1976)

Sources

Music

1. Assam
2. Clonmel
3. Cobbs
4. Denny
5. El Dorado
6. For Me
7. Keegan
8. McClard (© 1965)
9. McNeely
10. Mora Proctor
11. Paschall
12. Sims
13. Sullivan
14. Washburn
15. Wondrous Love