Reyes passes away peacefully in her sleep on a quiet Sunday morning, ninety-one years old, surrounded by decades of accumulated purpose despite spending her final years in comfortable retirement.
The news reaches our family through her daughter, a brief phone call that nonetheless lands with considerable weight given everything Reyes contributed toward our extraordinary journey.
"She talked about all of you constantly," her daughter tells us during the call. "Said meeting your family was the most significant professional relationship of her entire career."
We gather for her funeral, our extended family alongside countless colleagues whose careers Reyes touched throughout decades of dedicated law enforcement service.
"She believed us when almost nobody else would," I tell the assembled
