Jodi was a Ford model in New York when she met and married her husband, Angus, in the Old Saint Peter's Lutheran Church at 54th and Lexington Avenue.

She played a leading role in The Love Machine for Columbia Pictures, and then returned from Los Angeles to co-write the lyrics on an album of songs with her friend, Bobby Gosh, for Polydor Records.

She gave birth to her first child at New York Hospital in 1972.

Jodi went on to a joyous and productive life in her Oklahoma and Colorado homes that was filled with beloved family, success in business and artistic achievement creating fine art and original music.