Hollis Reed
Marriages
Robert Reed - 1948
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7 B Death Notice - January 28, 2015
Hollis Reed, 89, Palisade, died Jan. 25, 2015, at her home.
Arrangements are pending with Palisade Funeral Home.
She is survived by two sons, Curtis H. of Aaronburg, Pennsylvania, and David W. of Gainesville, Florida; and one daughter, Lorna Reed of Palisade.
Memorial contributions to Roice-Hurst Humane Society, P.O.
Box 4040, Grand Junction 81502; or Clifton Christian Church; or
Habitat for Humanity.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Death Notice - January 29, 2015
Hollis Reed, 89, Palisade, died Jan. 25, 2015, at her home.
Private services will be held at a later date.
She is survived by two sons, Curtis H. of Aaronburg, Pennsylvania, and David W. of Gainesville, Florida; and one daughter, Lorna Reed of Palisade.
Memorial contributions to Roice-Hurst Humane Society, P.O.
Box 4040, Grand Junction 81502; or Clifton Christian Church; or
Habitat for Humanity.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Obituary - January 29, 2015
Hollis Fay Reed
October 9, 1925 - January 25, 2015
Hollis "Holly" Harvey Reed, my mother, was born in 1925, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
She grew up in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, and attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Textile Institute (now, the University of the Arts). She went to work designing upholstery fabrics, woven on Jacquard looms. During World War II, she aided in the war effort, by assembling B-17 instrument gauges.
In 1948 she married her high school sweetheart, Robert Reed, who served with the Tenth Mountain Infantry, in Italy, and they moved to Vermont, where Bob attended Middlebury College.
Upon Bob’s graduation they moved to Stuyvesant Town,
Manhattan, where their two sons, Curtis and David, were born.
In 1956, they returned to the Philadelphia Main Line, had a
daughter, Lorna, and settled in Berwyn where they raised their children and established deep, lifelong friendships.
Holly began a lifelong career of helping others. She
volunteered with the Red Cross in Blood Mobiles and visited
and aided returning Viet Nam soldiers at the Valley Forge
Military Hospital. She enjoyed serving as a period-costumed
guide at George Washington’s headquarters at Valley Forge.
Holly continued her interest in art by creating drawings,
paintings, and mosaics; by teaching embroidery, needlepoint,
and crewel; and by designing custom pieces and stitchery kits
commercially.
Once the three children left home, Holly became an avid and
enthusiastic traveler to countless countries and most of the
continents, with many Habitat for Humanity projects in
Guatemala, the Balkans, and Nepal. Holly was an insatiable
reader, fond of history, cultures, and archeology. Perhaps the
greatest joy of Holly’s later life came when David’s two
children, Paul and Alesandra, were born.
In 2009, Holly left Pennsylvania’s harsh winters to join Lorna
in Palisade, Colorado, where she and Lorna enjoyed local tripsto continue her interest in archaeology and early American culture. While in Palisade, Holly joined a writing club, a book club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a Bible study group at Clifton Christian. She also treasured visits from her grandchildren, both of whom had moved to Denver.
Holly was preceded in death by her parents, Doris E. Fellows
and Cecil P. Harvey, and her husband, Robert H. Reed. She is survived by her brother, Andrew C. Harvey, and his wife, Lynn, of Waltham, Massachusetts; children, Curtis H., David W., and Lorna V.S. Reed; and her two grandchildren, Paul Martin Reed, and Alesandra Fay Reed.
Donations in Holly’s memory may be made to Habitat for
Humanity (www.habitat.org), Doctors without Borders
(www.doctorswithoutborders.org), or the Roice-Hurst Humane
Society.
Future celebrations of Holly’s life will be held in Colorado and
Pennsylvania. Holly will be fondly remembered and sadly
missed.
Services were entrusted to Palisade Funeral Home of Palisade, Colorado.
