Gloria Sue Reed Reed Hendry

Gloria Sue Reed Hendry, 88, died November 26, 2011 in the comfort of her home. She was born March 30, 1926 to the late Col. Lear B. and Bertha Lee Compton Reed, of Richmond and Northern Virginia. She was the granddaughter of Dr. Llewellyn Thomas Reed and Katherine Effie Beasley Steele Reed, of Atlanta and up-state New York and of Edward Henry Compton and Susan Long Menefee Compton, of Warren County, Virginia. In 1947, she married Robert Needham Hendry, of Jacksonville, Florida.

Mrs. Hendry graduated from Florida State University, Tallahassee, where she majored in history and journalism. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. After moving to Raleigh, NC, she earned a master’s degree from NCSU (Phi Kappa Phi).

As a student, she was known for her feature articles in the Florida Flambeau and the Tallahassee Democrat and in Virginia by the Warren Sentinel. She continued to write historical articles from time to time and was especially interested in the leading role played by the Livery Companies of London in the Settlement of Virginia and of the importance of these Companies in the founding of the Nation. Mrs. Hendry also wrote historical columns for the NC Jamestowne Society Newsletter and edited the South Riding Post Reader for the Colonial Dames of America, the original and oldest lineage society for women in the United States. Also, she created the historical portions of the national Jamestowne Society web site.

Mrs. Hendry has been a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and had served as President of the Charlotte Chapter before coming to Raleigh. Also, she was a member of the NS Daughter of the American Revolution in which she was former Regent of Caswell-Nash Chapter, Raleigh; a member of the Order of the First Families of North Carolina; and NC State President, National Registrar, and National Vice President of the NS Daughters of Colonial Wars; Organizing President of Chapter XXIX of the Colonial Dames of America, 1890; and Daughters of the Cincinnati.

Mrs. Hendry is survived by her husband, Robert Needham Hendry; two sons, Robert Carlisle Hendry, of Hillsborough, NC and wife, Dr. Karen Hendry, and Douglas Reed Hendry, of Amite, Louisiana; a niece and nephew, great-niece and two great-nephews. Mrs. Hendry was predeceased by her brother, Dwight Compton Reed and her sister-in-law, Mrs. D.C. Reed, of Lexington, VA.

Visitation with the family in the church parlor will follow a memorial service at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on Canterbury Road on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM. Interment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Front Royal, Virginia.

Brown-Wynne, St. Mary’s Street, is serving the family in Raleigh and Maddox Funeral Home is serving the family in Front Royal, Virginia.