Judy Ann Brown Reeder was born on Dec 3, 1938, in Ardmore Okla. She died March 25, 2025, in Okla. City. Judy was the only child of Julius Graham Brown and Edna Jessie Powers Brown. The family left Ardmore when she was 8 and moved to Ft Worth, Texas, where her father was a switchman for the railroad.
She and her mother moved back to Ardmore following the death of her father when she was 14. She graduated high school in Ardmore in 1956 and married James Donald Reeder Sr. on Feb 28, 1957.
While Don was active in the military, she was able to see a lot of the world. They lived in Pakistan for several years and several states across the US.