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Virginia Loraine <I>Dodson</I> Story

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Virginia Loraine Dodson Story

Birth
Jacobia, Hunt County, Texas, USA
Death
17 Nov 2002 (aged 91)
Opelika, Lee County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Jacobia, Hunt County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1921-1945, brides page 56:
bride: Dodson, Loraine
groom: Wilson, J.W. Jr.
married: 17 Jul 1930
recorded: marriage volume 31 page 600
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Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1921-1945, grooms page 200:
groom: Story, Archie
bride: Wilson, Virginia Loraine (Mrs.)
married: 25 Dec 1943
recorded: marriage volume 31 page 394
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Greenville (Texas) Herald Banner, Tue, 19 Nov 2002, p. A3, (extraction from Hastings/Hasting/Hasten, Hargrove/Hargrave, Dunnavant/Dunavant and collateral families records of Ruth Hasten Walsh)

Graveside services for long-time Hunt County resident Virginia Loraine Story, 91, of Opelika, Ala are at 11 a.m. today at Old Concord Cemetery in the Jacobia Community of Hunt County. Her son-in-law, Rev. James W. Clark of Nashville, Tenn., will officiate.

Mrs. Story died Sunday following a brief illness.

Born Christmas day, 1910, in Jacobia, she was the daughter of Samuel Thomas and Mattie McKenney Dodson. In 1930, she was married to J.W. Wilson. Following her husband’s retirement from the Army Air Corps, they moved to Greenville where they were members of First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Story gave art lessons, taught elementary school in several East Texas communities and made and sold ceramics. She earned a master of library science degree at East Texas State University.

Mrs. Story served 10 years as head librarian at W. Walworth Harrison Public Library in Greenville where she was over the development of an extensive collection of genealogical materials; she retired in 1980. In 1998, Mrs. Story moved to Opelika, Ala.

Surviving are a son-in-law, James W. Clark; grandson Drew Clark and wife Miriam of Auburn, Ala.; granddaughter Lisa Smeallie and husband Peter of Silver Spring, Md. and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Clement and Ira Dodson; her husband and a daughter.

Peters Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Greenville (Texas) Herald Banner, Wed, 20 Nov 2002, page A3, Obituaries, Loraine Story

Graveside services for long-time Hunt County resident Virginia Loraine Story, 91, of Opelika, Ala were Tuesday at Old Concord Cemetery in the Jacobia Community of Hunt County. Her son-in-law, Rev. James W. Clark of Nashville, Tenn., will officiate.

Mrs. Story died Sunday following a brief illness.

Born Christmas day, 1910, in Jacobia, she was the daughter of Samuel Thomas and Mattie McKenney Dodson. In 1930, she was married to J.W. Wilson. In 1943, she married Archie Story.

Following her husband’s retirement from the Army Air Corps, they moved to Greenville where they were members of First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Story gave art lessons, taught elementary school in several East Texas communities and made and sold ceramics. She earned a master of library science degree at East Texas State University.

Mrs. Story served 10 years as head librarian at W. Walworth Harrison Public Library in Greenville where she was over the development of an extensive collection of genealogical materials; she retired in 1980. In 1998, Mrs. Story moved to Opelika, Ala.

Surviving are a son-in-law, James W. Clark; grandson Drew Clark and wife Miriam of Auburn, Ala.; granddaughter Lisa Smeallie and husband Peter of Silver Spring, Md. and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Clement and Ira Dodson; her husband and a daughter, Virginia Lee Wilson.

Peters Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1921-1945, brides page 56:
bride: Dodson, Loraine
groom: Wilson, J.W. Jr.
married: 17 Jul 1930
recorded: marriage volume 31 page 600
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Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1921-1945, grooms page 200:
groom: Story, Archie
bride: Wilson, Virginia Loraine (Mrs.)
married: 25 Dec 1943
recorded: marriage volume 31 page 394
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Greenville (Texas) Herald Banner, Tue, 19 Nov 2002, p. A3, (extraction from Hastings/Hasting/Hasten, Hargrove/Hargrave, Dunnavant/Dunavant and collateral families records of Ruth Hasten Walsh)

Graveside services for long-time Hunt County resident Virginia Loraine Story, 91, of Opelika, Ala are at 11 a.m. today at Old Concord Cemetery in the Jacobia Community of Hunt County. Her son-in-law, Rev. James W. Clark of Nashville, Tenn., will officiate.

Mrs. Story died Sunday following a brief illness.

Born Christmas day, 1910, in Jacobia, she was the daughter of Samuel Thomas and Mattie McKenney Dodson. In 1930, she was married to J.W. Wilson. Following her husband’s retirement from the Army Air Corps, they moved to Greenville where they were members of First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Story gave art lessons, taught elementary school in several East Texas communities and made and sold ceramics. She earned a master of library science degree at East Texas State University.

Mrs. Story served 10 years as head librarian at W. Walworth Harrison Public Library in Greenville where she was over the development of an extensive collection of genealogical materials; she retired in 1980. In 1998, Mrs. Story moved to Opelika, Ala.

Surviving are a son-in-law, James W. Clark; grandson Drew Clark and wife Miriam of Auburn, Ala.; granddaughter Lisa Smeallie and husband Peter of Silver Spring, Md. and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Clement and Ira Dodson; her husband and a daughter.

Peters Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Greenville (Texas) Herald Banner, Wed, 20 Nov 2002, page A3, Obituaries, Loraine Story

Graveside services for long-time Hunt County resident Virginia Loraine Story, 91, of Opelika, Ala were Tuesday at Old Concord Cemetery in the Jacobia Community of Hunt County. Her son-in-law, Rev. James W. Clark of Nashville, Tenn., will officiate.

Mrs. Story died Sunday following a brief illness.

Born Christmas day, 1910, in Jacobia, she was the daughter of Samuel Thomas and Mattie McKenney Dodson. In 1930, she was married to J.W. Wilson. In 1943, she married Archie Story.

Following her husband’s retirement from the Army Air Corps, they moved to Greenville where they were members of First Baptist Church.

Mrs. Story gave art lessons, taught elementary school in several East Texas communities and made and sold ceramics. She earned a master of library science degree at East Texas State University.

Mrs. Story served 10 years as head librarian at W. Walworth Harrison Public Library in Greenville where she was over the development of an extensive collection of genealogical materials; she retired in 1980. In 1998, Mrs. Story moved to Opelika, Ala.

Surviving are a son-in-law, James W. Clark; grandson Drew Clark and wife Miriam of Auburn, Ala.; granddaughter Lisa Smeallie and husband Peter of Silver Spring, Md. and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Clement and Ira Dodson; her husband and a daughter, Virginia Lee Wilson.

Peters Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.


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