I am on ancestry.com - bought a year's subscription. Just can't find much about her after 1951. I was born in 1949, she married Wesley Reed in 1951 & he died in 1954. He was twice her age when they married. After that, it's like she fell off the planet. Just realized that I spelled our last name wrong - Rodgers!!!
I wish you the best of luck with your new-found cousin. I think it's exciting.