Kim Kelly
My name is Kim Kelly and I worked with Rita in the late 70s at the Arlington community hospital. She lived in the apartments across the street from mine. I didn’t have a car during some of that time and would carpool with Rita. I am a 65 yo black lady but I was a kid then and loved Rita. We worked the 3 to 11 shift and would sometimes have wine after work at her apartment. I’d lost my mother in an accident at 19 and met Rita at 21. I didn’t think of it until just this moment but I think I took to her as a mother figure. She was kind and gentle and funny. I moved to Dallas and we lost touch but I have thought of her very often. I knew she had moved back to East Texas but it was before social media and I never sought her out. To her family, I know you know what a good and decent woman she was and I would like you to know that she made a lifelong impression on me.