Judy Pearson, 81, of Duluth and Lake Vermilion, died peacefully at Solvay Hospice House in Duluth on April 29th after an unexpected and swift decline from pancreatic cancer. The daughter of Addis and Robert Holmstrom, Judy was born in Joliet, Illinois, on September 11, 1942. A graduate of Joliet High School, Judy attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where she fell in love with David Pearson, a Lutheran seminarian with a sparkle in his blue eyes. The two married in 1963 and she graduated soon after.