- Date Of Birth: August 12, 1923
- Date Of Death: February 26, 2018
- State: Colorado
Edith R. Riley passed onward peacefully on 2-26-18 in a Highlands Ranch, Colorado care facility. Very active all her life, it wasn’t until her early 90s that Edie began catching up on sleep. By the winter of 2017-18, she had amply prepared for the big sleep, and one day all the sleeps merged into one. Along the way to that moment, many of us have been inspired to see her rise time and again, with smile and laugh, overcoming challenge after challenge, in whatever form they came. We fortunate ones, those who traveled a few steps with her, cannot fathom what makes such illustrious ones, or why we are so lucky that they come our particular way. All we fellow travelers can do is be grateful to have known someone like her, and to tell of the places someone like her has passed by. Edie arrived during an annual celestial event. Every year, the Perseid meteor shower reaches its height of activity about August 12. On August 12, 1923, Edith Isabelle Reed was born to Clarice and Edward Reed in East Orange, New Jersey. Such time of year and time of life depends upon perspective, both in space and time. In neither beginning nor end of her life was Edie figuring out how old she was, but how new. In the in-between years, Edie could count with the best of them, and also not count. Her family and Edie always loved those warm August nights, but it wasn’t always because of the Perseids. For us family it was because we could celebrate Edie’s birthday, and Edie loved her birthday because she got to see family. We don’t have to be astronomers to catch whatever shooting star moments we can. All here life, Edie liked to fly.
