Brenda Kay Reed, 76, of Tri-Lakes, died at 3:15 a.m. Thursday, May 12, 2022, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne where she was admitted on Sunday.

She was born on April 4, 1946, in Spencer, Indiana, a daughter of the late Howard Eugene and Winifred Louise (Casida) Hall.  Growing up in the Spencer area she graduated from Spencer High School.  She then completed beautician school in Indianapolis.

On October 11, 1969, she married Allan L. Reed.  They made their first home in Indianapolis then moving to Hoagland.  In 1983, the couple moved to Tri-Lakes.  Allan died on July 14, 2006.

A full-time homemaker, she also team drove semitrucks with her husband.  After retiring from the road, she worked a couple of years for Ultra Electronics in Columbia City.

A talented cook, she enjoyed baking pies and often selling them at her husband's gun shows.  At home she grew flowers and an annual vegetable garden.  She liked her cats and leaves a couple at home.

Surviving is her daughter, Heather (Thomas) Waters of Tri-Lakes; step grandchildren, Michael Thomas Waters and Tequila Lynne Waters; and 2 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Eugene A. Hall.

The funeral service is 2 p.m. Monday at Smith & Sons Funeral Home, Columbia City.  She will be interred by her husband at the South Park Annex Cemetery.  Visitation is noon until the service Monday at the funeral home.

Preferred memorials are to the Humane Society of Whitley County.