Sign executive honors late wife
A handful of billboards across Hamilton County say: “In loving memory of Julia Reagan.”
Local residents who asked friends and neighbors if they know the woman memorialized on the signs, or wondered if she was a celebrity they didn’t know, would have come up empty. She’s not from here, not from Tennessee and lived the majority of her life in Utah.
So what’s up?
Reagan, who died in June, was the wife of William “Bill” Reagan, the founder of Reagan Outdoor Advertising, headquartered in Utah. He has said he had “six or seven” signs when they got married in 1965, and the company now has 9,000.