Glenna Belle Reed

Glenna Belle Reed, 81, died Monday, January 24, 2011, in Amarillo.

Services were held Wednesday, January 26, at the Groom Church of Christ with Glen Walton and Sam Line, officiating. Interment was held at Jericho Cemetery at Jericho. Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Glenna was born July 18, 1929, to Benton and Etta Mae Shields in Collingsworth County. She graduated from Quail High School in 1946 and Abilene Christian College in 1951. She taught first grade in both Whiteface and Groom. Glenna married Tom Reed on May 22, 1956, and they moved to Jericho in 1959 and then to Groom in 1972. She faithfully attended the Groom Church of Christ.

She and Tom were foster parents for High Plains Children’s Home for at least 18 infants. She assisted Tom in running Jericho Gas Station and hay baling.

Glenna was preceded in death by her parents; her son, Kent Dale in 2008; and her son Ronny Ray in 1969.
Survivors include her husband, Tom of Groom; her daughter, Donna Cattaneo and husband Mike, of Amarillo; her son, Thomas Reed and wife Lisa, of Friona and their children Shayli, Sawyer, Stetson, and Teri; her daughter-in-law, Kellye Reed of Claude and her children Kaci and Mitchel Bailey, and Kyndal; her son, Cary Reed and wife Lisa, of Justin and their children Autumn and Michelle; her daughter, Angie Reed of Canyon, and her fiance Joey Koontz, and children Yardii and Zac; her brother, Jimmie Shields and wife Carolyn of Pringle, TX; her brother, Leon Shields and wife Sylvia of Vinson, OK; her brother, Lonnie Shields and wife Le Ann or Spearman; and her sister, Bonnie Harland and husband Ernest of Oxford, MS.
Casket bearers were her grandsons and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be to High Plains Children’s Home, PO Box 7448, Amarillo, TX 79114-7448; or Groom EMS, PO Box 217, Groom, TX 79039.