The Amazing Race household has misplaced considered one of their very own.

Jody Kelly—the oldest girl to ever compete on the CBS journey competitors—died “abruptly however peacefully” on Sept. 5, in response to her obituary within the Austin-American Statesman. She was 85.

Jody, who had resided in Austin, Texas, for greater than a decade, was attending Spanish language immersion camp in Minnesota when she died, per the obit.

Born on Jan. 21, 1938, Jody was 71 when she appeared on The Amazing Race‘s 16th season in 2010. Partnering up together with her then-22-year-old granddaughter Shannon Foster, the Alabama native made it to the second spherical of the race earlier than being eradicated.

On the time, she stated her participation on the present was proof that senior individuals “can do bodily issues.”

And rightly so. Along with founding StrengthMobile, an organization that gives bodily coaching to the aged, Jody represented Staff USA in a number of worldwide races, together with the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest and the 2016 ITU World Triathlon in Cozumel. She was additionally a member of Paddles with a Function—a dragon boat group comprised of breast most cancers survivors—after going into remission in 2018.