Musician Katie Reider Died

Singer and songwriter Katie Reider, 30, died Monday morning, July 14, 2008 in New Jersey after a two-year battle with a tumor that forced her from the stage in 2006, but not from her will to survive.

Earlier she wrote on her website

"There always seems to be a lot of waiting and that can be frustrating, but while I wait, I am trying to LIVE! Let’s live together and remind one another how precious life is and how we should live each moment to the fullest."

After multiple diagnoses and treatments, doctors diagnosed her in June 2007 with a rare myofibroblastic inflammation tumor that had progressed from her sinus and upper left jaw to behind her left eye and later she had double vision that made it impossible for her to perform. Just when doctors had controlled her tumor, Reider began to hemorrhage from an artery in her brain. It was this hemorrhaging that led to Reider's death on Monday.

Reider's mother Gaile Reider, died of cancer last year. "The mother-and-child reunion going on in heaven right now must be unbelievable," her father said Monday from his Montgomery home. Reider's father Rob Reider, best known as a singer on the Cincinnati-based syndicated entertainment program The Bob Braun Show in the 1970s and ’80s.

Katie Reider is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and has been performing and making music since she was a little girl. She received her first guitar, a red Gibson Epiphone, from her parents when she was in fifth grade.