 Reynolds died following a stroke on December 28, 2016, one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.Reynolds was born on April 1, 1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene "Minnie" Harman and Raymond Francis "Ray" Reynolds, a carpenter who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad.She was of Scotch-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church.