Patricia Flanagan Judd

last days by those who loved her.

Trish had a fiercely independent mind, a compassionate heart, a keen

sense of the absurd, and a love of laughter that lightened her serious

nature. She loved literature, music, poetry, drama and the science of

climate change. She respected reality and its demands and tried all her

life to pursue truth, always with the provision that its claims be in harmony

with established science.

Born August 29, 1929, and raised in the Chicago area, where she rode her bike, ice-skated

in the neighborhood park, swam in Lake Michigan and, between

adventures, graduated from New Trier High School. Four years later she

graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, completed her graduate work in

English at North Texas State University. She taught English at several

community colleges and at Texas Tech University.

While living in Dallas, she was active in the Civil Rights movement and

formed a small group at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas that was

instrumental in the lawsuit that eventually led to the Roe v. Wade decision

on abortion by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

During her later years in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Trish was a founder of a

Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation branch and of Renesan, a

lifelong learning group that eventually grew from thirty to 700 members.

Both continue to be highly meaningful and successful parts of the Santa Fe

community.

She loved living her last years in easy sight of the mountains, and said that

her first sight of the Rockies, when she was in her thirties, almost caused

her, a Midwestern flatlander, to pass out from sheer disbelief, ecstasy and

awe. She never lost that feeling.

She is survived by her two surviving sons and their spouses, David and

Marjorie White of Evansville, Indiana; and Jeffrey and Diane White of

Boerne, Texas. Their children, respectively, are Amie Ellis, Mary Anne

McCandless, Melissa Hudson, Cameron White, and Connor White. She is

also survived by Jill White, widow of Trish’s deceased son, Greg, and their

children, Nicholas and Katie, of Irving, Texas, as well as her niece and

husband, Aleta and Alden Sherman, and their daughter Justine, of

Boulder, Co. Trish delighted in her numerous, scattered great

grandchildren whenever they could arrange to be together. She is

survived by her treasured friend Roger Dennett of Boulder. She was

preceded in death by her second husband of thirty years, Alfred Judd, and

is survived by Al’s children Rebecca, Taylor and Karen Judd, and

Rebecca’s children, Hannah Judd and Judd McGraw.

Gifts can be made in her name to the Unitarian Universalist Church of

Boulder. A Memorial Service in her honor will be held in the Sky Room at

Frasier Retirement Community on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 1:00

pm.