The Reeders and their spouses were all of a type -- educated, active, churchgoing people. So far in my research, all of them have had college degrees and many were teachers. The wife of grandmother's second-oldest brother was an author, as well as a genealogist, who worked with her husband William Marvin Reeder on the family history. A cursory search did not turn up any results about her books.
I am not sure if the scholarship was dissolved or just renamed, as there remains a William Marvin and Stella Reeder Memorial Scholarship at Chattanooga State (source).
Stella Reeder
93, author
CHATTANOOGA -- Funeral for Stella Reeder, 93, of Chattanooga was Monday at Chattanooga Funeral Home with the Rev. Bob Stitts officiating.
Burial was in Hamilton Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Reeder died Friday, Jan. 7, 2000, at her home. She was born in Morgan County to George Washington
and Effie Powell Beasley. A former resident of Hartselle and Florence,
she was a member of Bayside Baptist Church and the Nancy Ward Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a former member of First Christian Church, where she taught Sunday school.
She wrote "My Memories, 1906-1994," "My Memories II, 1906-1997"
and "Pardon My Southern Accent," and was researching 24 families,
including Beasley, Plemmons, Powell and Capt. Thomas Wallace. She was a
graduate of Coffee High School, attended the University of North Alabama and Vanderbilt University, and was a retired third-grade teacher. She was the widow of William Marvin Reeder.
She is survived by one daughter, Jane Beasley Reeder of Chattanooga [ed: who died on March 1, 2010]; one grandson; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Marvin and Stella Reeder Music Scholarship at Chattanooga State Technical Community College.
Source: http://www.genealogybuff.com/al/morgan/webbbs_config.pl/read/91
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