Reico Hyten

From the Hyten family archive; subject is Reico Hyten (lifespan unknown), the compiler's father. This entry covers his parentage, his brother, his two marriages, and his son, situating him in the late twentieth-century generation of the Hyten line. Notable: his marriages span Korean and Filipino heritage, reflecting the family's modern international expansion beyond its earlier American roots.

Reico Hyten, whose dates of birth and death are not preserved in the present record, stood in the immediate generation preceding the compiler, being indeed the compiler's father. He was born to Gene Hyten (1929–2013) and Dorothy Noonan, and was reared alongside his brother, Bruno Hyten. Through his father he descended from the older Hyten line traced elsewhere in this register, while through his mother he carried the Noonan name into a new generation.

Reico's life unfolded in the latter half of the twentieth century, an era in which the descendants of the older American families increasingly looked outward, and in which the post-war decades brought American servicemen, workers, and travelers into long and lasting contact with peoples of the Pacific and of Latin America. It was in such a wider world that Reico's own family was formed.

He was twice united in marriage. His first wife was Chong Ye Chu, whose name reflects Korean origin and through whom the family acquired its first direct connection to the Korean peninsula. His second wife was Filomena Reyes Palacio, whose name is of Filipino and Hispanic character, and who brought into the household a further breadth of cultural inheritance. By these unions, and within the wider span of his domestic life, Reico became the father of Jacob Hyten — the compiler of this register and the keeper of the family's records into the present generation.

Although little of Reico's particular history, occupation, or residence is set down here for the benefit of later kin, his place within the family is fixed and certain. He bridged the older Hyten and Noonan lines of his parents with the newer international branches established through his two marriages, and he stood as father to the present chronicler. Reico Hyten was the compiler's father, occupying the most immediate paternal station in this record.