Monica Reed

Monica Imojean "Jeanne" Reed, 90, was "welcomed into the Lord's arms" on Sept. 15, 2008, at Heritage Place in Kalispell.

Jeanne was born Dec. 8, 1917, in Cascade to Fred and Grace (Bain) Tintinger. The youngest of eight children, she attended school in Great Falls at St. Mary's Catholic School.

On March 10, 1934, she married Ed Reed in Great Falls and then moved to the Fairfield Bench, where they raised sheep and started their family of six children. In 1952, they moved their family to Columbia Falls.

In her mid-40s, Jeanne obtained her beautician's license, opened Jeanne's Beauty Shop in Columbia Falls and continued styling hair years after selling her shop in the mid-'70s.

She and Ed resided in their family home on Highway 40. They were very active in the Good Sams, Columbia Falls Senior Center, the Whitefish McDonald's coffee group, and tending their gardens, where Ed would make his wine and Jeanne would make her wonderful jams.

Everyone who met Jeanne knew she loved to dance, sing with the Trubadors, feed her animals too much and, most importantly, loved her wonderful family.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Ed; brothers Leland, Lloyd, Carl, Russell and Fred; and sisters Marian Farrell and Tess Squires.

She is survived by her six children, Tom Reed and wife Martina, of Escondido, Calif., Sandy Turner, of Kalispell, Terry Reed, of Kalispell, Jerry Reed and wife Becky, of Columbia Falls, Todd Reed and wife Patti, of Whitefish, and Mike Reed and wife Sue, of Kalispell; 14 grandchildren, Tammy Englehardt and husband Rick, of California, Jamie Bronson, of California, Brian Reed, of Olney, Steve Turner, of Kalispell, Teresa Collier and husband Rob, of Kalispell, Corrine Turner, of Kalispell, JoAnn Reed, of Bigfork, Britt Reed, of Columbia Falls, Jon Reed and wife Linda, of Belgrade, Scott Reed, of Columbia Falls, Misty Retz, of Whitefish, Kevin Reed, of Columbia Falls, Cory Reed, of Columbia Falls, and Nick Reed, of Alaska; 11 great grandchildren; one great great grandson; extended families Jerry Whetham, of Whitefish, Leroy and Jana Grundmeier, their daughter Kami Doty and husband Kenny, and Bill and Linda Hoyt, of Whitefish; and numerous nephews and nieces.

A funeral service was held Sept. 20, 2008, at St. Richard's Catholic Church in Columbia Falls, with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery following the service.

Jeanne's family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations in Jeanne's name be made to any of the local animal shelters or the Humane Society.