Jody Kelly, who at 71 in 2010 competed in the 16th season of CBS’ The Amazing Race along with her 22-year-old granddaughter Shannon, died Sept.
5 in Bemidji, Minnesota, where she was attending a Spanish language immersion camp. She was 85. A resident of Austin, Texas, her death was reported by the Austin American-Statesman.
The paper reported that Kelly died suddenly but peacefully. Josephine “Jody” Kelly was born on January 21, 1938 in Opelika, Alabama, and was raised in Gainesville, Florida, with one year in Wiesbaden, Germany at the end of World War II.
After earning a Ph.D. in English Literature from Duke University in 1974, Kelly taught English at the University of Louisiana for sixteen years.
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