Personal Life
From 1943 to 1945, Reed was married to make up artist William Tuttle. In 1945, she married producer Tony Owen (1907–1984) with whom she raised four children: Penny Jane, Anthony, Timothy, and Mary Anne (the two older children were adopted). Reed and Owen divorced in 1971, and three years later, she married retired United States Army Colonel Grover W. Asmus (1926–2003).
During the Vietnam War, Reed was a peace activist, co-chairing a group opposed to the war called Another Mother for Peace.
On January 8, 1945, Reed went to Juarez, Mexico, to obtain a divorce from Bill Tuttle. Returning home on the night of January 9, 1945, Reed boarded a plane in El Paso, Texas, for a flight back to Los Angeles. Just as the plane was about to take off, Reed was bumped from the flight to make room for a military officer. The airliner crashed on approach to Lockheed Air Terminal (now called Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank, California, killing everyone on board.
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