Age 87, died peacefully on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth. She was born to Solveig and Clair Reitz on Monday, September 4th, 1935, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in St. Paul’s Highland Park Neighborhood. She graduated from Minnehaha Academy in 1953, and attended nurses training at the Mounds-Midway School of Nursing at Hamline University, graduating in 1956. She later received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and worked as a licensed psychologist at the Human Development Center for more than ten years.