Betty Louise Daughtry Reed was born March 11, 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Claude and Nancy Taylor Green Daughtry.

She attended Decatur Girls High School, Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, then graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1953 with a B.S. in Education. She married her high school sweetheart George Clifton Reed III on June 13, 1954. She taught 4th-7th grade at Atlanta City, DeKalb County, and South Bend City Schools before having children. They later moved to Louisville, Kentucky where she worked as a substitute teacher, teacher in an Outreach Program for troubled students and Health Careers Preparatory Program, tax preparer, US Census Bureau, and Sears, as well as, co-owning and teaching at a workout studio. During this time, she continued her education and earned an A.A. Para-Legal Studies and M.A. in Education at the University of Louisville.

Betty was an excellent seamstress, enjoyed crafts, square dancing, and was in a book club for 35 years besides years of volunteer work. She owned ponies or horses most of her life and daily enjoyed riding her last horse, a Tennessee Walker, named Jewel.

Betty was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Claude, her husband, and her son-in-law Randy Jones.

Left to cherish her memory is her son Philip Reed and daughter Amelia Jones. Betty is also survived by her grandchildren Nicholas Reed (Jessica), Jennifer Reed Hayes (Jon), Hank Jones (Isabella), and Emmeline Jones, as well as, great-grandchildren Regan Hayes, Kennedy Hayes, and Madison Hayes.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Betty Reed can be made to Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville.

A Memorial Service will be held privately.