Anne Marie Fulwood Reed, the eldest of five siblings and the daughter of the late Samuel L. and Rosa Fulwood, was born September 26,1920 in Waxhaw, North Carolina. Affectionately known as Aunt Nook, she passed away on March 12, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland.

As a young girl, she moved to Baltimore, where she attended public school because North Carolina's segregation laws of the time refused to provide high school education for black students. A graduate of Frederick Douglass High school, she went on to earn degrees in Sociology and Psychology, graduating in 1944 from Morgan State University. In 1949, she earned a Master's Degree in Social Work from Howard University. Additionally, she did post graduate and special studies at Yale University, New York Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, the University of Maryland and Community College of Baltimore.

Throughout her long and varied career, Anne worked as a Baltimore-area medical social worker. She held positions with the Baltimore City Health Department and Veteran's Administration Hospital. For a period during the 1970s, she served as the Director of a Special Federal Project for Handicapped and Disabled Public Assistance Recipients, where she helped disabled persons return to productive lives.

Later in Anne's career, she served as a professor at the School of Social Work at Howard University, teaching students what she often called "on the job training of how to apply theory to practice." Her work with the National Council of Negro Women, under the direction of Dorothy Height, provided community-based support services as an alternative to entering the criminal justice system for young women ages 13 to 17 who were in trouble with the law.

A long and faithful member of Grace Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Anne taught Sunday Church School and advised Youth Groups. She served as Vice Moderator of the Deacon's Board, member of the Christian Education Committee, Child Care Committee, Matron's Club, Elder Board and Chair of the Church Y Society. In 1975, she was selected as Church Mother of the Year.

Anne Reed was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She also was one of the founding members of the "Twelve Plus One," an organization of African American women in public health and social work. An avid traveler, she often joined her daughter on assignments in Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific.

She married the Frank Reed on December 22, 1951. He preceded her in death In December, 1977. She is survived by her daughter Frankie Reed and a granddaughter Brett Calhoun and her husband Nii Quaynor. Her three brothers and one sister, the Reverend Samuel Fulwood, James and Thomas Fulwood, and Dorothy Fulwood, preceded her in death. Anne Reed is survived by a host of devoted nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Her surviving family extends to that of her wonderful caretaker, Loretta Hawkins, and her family who cared for her
during the past six years.