Rhea Timmons

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Topic: Rhea Timmons Memorial Service

Time: Aug 28, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Rhea Timmons, 75, passed on August 18, 2021. She leaves behind her children, Sean Rudd (Randi), Ronald Rudd, Jr., and Angelyn Rudd; one grandchild, Ethan and her sister, Gayle Timmons. In lieu of flowers, Rhea requested donations to All Peoples Unitarian Church, which is hosting her memorial on August 28th, 2:00pm. More info at

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Born and raised in Louisville, KY to Evelyn and Garland Timmons, sister to Gayle Timmons, mother to Sean, Ron, and Angelyn Rudd, and Grandmother to Ethan Rudd. A member of the All Peoples Unitarian Universalist Church and friend to all.

Rhea became a single-parent when her youngest was only a year old and was a surrogate-mother to many of the children and teens that called her “mom” during her life. A natural-born nurturer, she endeavored to be both a mother and a father to her three children: especially following their father’s death in 1985. She chose a career as a speech-therapist for JCPS to help children, volunteered at her church Sunday school, and was a regular volunteer for Camp Quality; a cancer camp for children. She was always happiest when helping those in need.

Growing up in our house in Crescent Hill, there was a sign on our door that read “There are no strangers; only friends we haven’t met.” Rhea epitomized this saying by opening her house and her heart to anyone who needed her. She invited her children’s high school friends to live with her when they couldn’t live at home, welcomed relative strangers into the house during holidays, and even welcomed a veritable farm’s worth of dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, lizards, snakes, spiders, and anything else her kids would call a pet. Her heart had no bounds.

Rhea was a passionate reader, writer, and storyteller. She enjoyed creative writing and, with the help of her sister Gayle, even managed to write a script for a TV pilot filmed in CA. She wrote her memoirs, which we are only now beginning to really appreciate. She wrote poems and short stories for people in her church groups and both funny and scary stories she would tell audiences during her stint as a professional storyteller. She was creative, funny, and talented.

Finally, she was an avid genealogist who loved to do research across the many branches of our family tree. She loved to locate headstones in obscure cemeteries and got a special thrill when she was able to connect with someone online and work together to make another connection between family members in the past. She maintained many well-structured files detailing her efforts and took pride in compiling photos and stories into books she would publish for specific branches and members of the family.

Her battle with brain cancer was not an easy one to bear, but she was fortunate to have the time she did and to live mostly symptom-free. She was able to get her knee fixed prior to the pandemic and was gradually rebuilding her life when her cancer returned. She passed without any pain and had accepted that it was her time to transition. Rhea was in every way a good person, and we will miss her smile and humor very much. Please join us in sharing stories of her on the Tributes tab so that others can get to know her just as well.