In 2004, she was the first woman to win the Gordon Bennet Cup for ballooning with fellow crewman Richard Abruzzo.

[4] She served 22 years in the United States Army Reserve as a flight surgeon and retired as a colonel in 2001.

[4] She received a Meritorious Service Medal and was an Honor Graduate of the Expert Field Medical Badge School at Fort Carson.

[4] She worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then was a radiologist, specializing in reading breast mammograms, in Denver, Colorado at the time of her death.

On September 25, 2010, Abruzzo and Rymer Davis lifted off from Bristol, England during the Gordon Bennett race.

Boats and aircraft engaged in a search and rescue operation in and over the Adriatic Sea, where there had been thunderstorms at the time that they went missing.