- Date Of Birth: June 4, 1952
- Date Of Death: February 9, 2020
- State: Colorado
Rebecca Ann Kelly, 67, of Canon City, Colorado, passed away peacefully February 9, 2020 in her beloved home. She was born June 4, 1952, in Bryan, Texas, to the late James Burton Kelly and Page Blanche Higgins.
She grew up in Houston, Texas, where she attended St. John’s High School, graduating in 1970.
She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas in 1975 and a master’s degree in education from Texas A & M University in 1976.
Rebecca was diagnosed with atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome in 2009, undergoing a transplant in 2010 when her friend Shellen Rhoden passed away and donated her kidneys. When those kidneys failed, she underwent dialysis until she received a second life-saving kidney transplant in 2015.
Rebecca was an accomplished educator, photographer, world traveler and a devoted Aggie.
She is survived by her brother James B. Kelly Jr and. his wife Sonia; her daughter Kelly Guettlein and her husband Brandon and son Jacob Patterson. She also is survived by granddaughters Rebecca Dalgleish and Olivia Guettlein; and nieces Briana and Kaitlin Kelly.
