Marjorie Dudley Reddick, 99, of Saint Paul, MN, died Saturday, June 9, 2018. She was born on November 28, 1918, in Groveton, TX, the daughter of Daniel E. Dudley and Nina Crow Dudley, and the oldest of four children. Her two sisters, Grace and Margaret Edwina, both lived into their ninties.
Marge was a teacher all her life. She started out teaching a variety of grades and subjects in her native Texas. During WWII, she was teaching fellow marines.
In Naperville, IL, she taught for many… Read More » years, specializing in teaching junior high students how to be more effective readers and she served as reading department chairman for several years. She was a Sunday school teacher at Grace United Methodist Church in Naperville, IL, and Woodbury Baptist Church in Woodbury, MN, and was also a Girl Scout leader for many years. On June 10, 1947, Marge married Glenn Eugene Reddick of Rogers, AR, at the 1st Baptist Church in Greeley, CO.
They raised three children one of whom, Marcia, predeceased her. She said, “I met Glenn Reddick in fall of 1946 in the Library at Colorado State College of Education as we were both researching topics related to Far Eastern Religions. It seemed one of us had always checked out the book the other was looking for.
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That’s how on a particular night we both came to the same book at the same time. And — as the movies used to say ‘The rest is history. '” In WWII Marge worked as an office manager for the Marines in Washington DC, receiving an honorable discharge at the rank of First Lieutenant.
She then served in the reserves, achieving the rank of Captain before having to resign due to expecting her first child in 1953. Marge traveled all over the world including Russia, China, South America, Australia (multiple times), Europe, Alaska and Hawaii. She left many hundreds of travel pictures more typically showing her with groups of people than in front of landmarks.
Much of this travel was in association with the Y’s Men, a service club contributing funds to the YMCA, in which she was very active , especially after retirement, holding local and regional leadership positions. Of her long life, she has said, “I’ve witnessed three major wars (almost four), the 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression of the 1930s, creation of the United Nations, the civil rights movement, military skirmishes, peace initiatives, plus technological and medical advances not even imagined in my childhood, a knowledge explosion that boggles the mind”. Surviving are her brother Dan Dudley, children Glenna and Bruce Reddick, grandchildren Dave Patoch, Jill Patoch-Reddick and Josh Reddick and great-grandchildren Dash and Jag Reddick.
Funeral services will be held at Woodbury Baptist Church, Woodbury, MN. Marge will be buried next to her husband Glenn at 11:00 on Tuesday June 19th at Naperville Cemetery in Naperville, IL. Memorials can be directed to the Glenn E. Reddick Memorial Scholarship, North Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60540.
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