“Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Sept. 30, 2013. She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.
On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the afterlife reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children. Her surviving children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure.
Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can revive our message that abusing children is unforgiveable, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a “humane society”. Our greatest wish now, is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.”
That is the obituary which was published Tuesday in the Reno Gazette-Journal. It was submitted to the Nevada newspaper by the mother’s daughter, Katherine Reddick, 57, with the approval of her brother, Patrick Reddick, 58, who referred to his mother as a “wicked, wicked witch.” Katherine is a psychology consultant for a school district outside Austin, Texas.
Katherine and Patrick are two of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick’s eight children. They had not seen their mother in over 30 years. The children endured both emotional abuse and physical assaults, including being beaten with a metal-tipped belt. From 1963 to 1964, six of the eight children, including Katherine and Patrick, were taken away from the mother and placed in the Nevada Children's Home, an orphanage in Carson City.
The 78-year-old ‘wicked, wicked witch’ died alone in a Reno nursing home. The actual date of death was August 30, 2013.
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