Virginia Minter

1933 - 2022  (89 years)

• Name	Virginia Minter
  Birth	10 Mar 1933	Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
  Gender	Female
  _UID	E13A496B52B74EC6ACAC99FB83E603EF33DE
  Death	2 Apr 2022	Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA   [1]
  Burial	Rose Lawn Memorial Park, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA
  Notes	From the Tyler Morning Telegraph online 6 April 2022: Virginia Young TYLER — If God needed a helping hand in his garden or solving puzzles, he got one on April 2, 2022, in Virginia Young. A homemaker and master gardener, Virginia was born March 10, 1933 in Oklahoma City, OK. She was the first child of Ada Askew Minter and Nancy Bernice Minter. She had 2 brothers and 4 sisters. She was 89 years old. Virginia attended the early days of school in Oklahoma City and graduated from Grand Prairie High School in 1951. She met the love of her life, Roland D. Young, Sr., in Grand Prairie. They married on October 6, 1951 and made their home in Grand Prairie. She raised two children, a son, Dale, Jr. and daughter, Jennifer. She was very active in her children’s upbringing. After Roland’s retirement in 1982, they built a house in the Oakland community near Canton, TX and later moved to Tyler, TX in 1999. Roland and Virginia enjoyed taking vacations to Mexico and across the United States with their friends and family. She is survived by her son, Roland Dale Young, Jr. and wife, Susan Ward of Wills Point, TX; daughter, Jennifer Gayle Dobbins and husband, Robert Norman “Bobby” of Tyler; 3 grandsons, Roland Dale Young, III of Arlington, Nicklaus Ryan Dobbins of Tyler, and Daniel James Dobbins; 2 sisters, Maggie Kearley of Arlington, Nancy Ferguson of Dallas and one brother, George B. “Skeeter” Minter of Mesa, AZ; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Roland in 2010, parents, a brother, Charles Minter, two sisters, Susan Minter and Marilyn Caudell. Graveside services will be at Rose Lawn Cemetery in Tyler on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Arrangements are under the care of Stewart Family Funeral Home.
  Person ID	I2833	America
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2022

  
  

  Father	Ada Askew Minter,   b. 6 Apr 1908, Pickton, Hopkins County, Texas, USA d. 1 Mar 2002, Texas, USA (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Nancy Bernice ELLEDGE,   b. 1914, Oklahoma, USA d. 1993, Texas, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	26 May 1932	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F1291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roland Dale YOUNG, Sr.,   b. 24 Oct 1929, Jean, Young County, Texas d. 26 Sep 2010, Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	6 Oct 1951	Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, USA   [3]
  Children	1. Roland Dale YOUNG, Jr.   2. Jennifer Gale YOUNG
  Family ID	F1299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Mar 1933 - Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, USA Marriage - 6 Oct 1951 - Grand Prairie, Tarrant County, Texas, USA Death - 2 Apr 2022 - Tyler, Smith County, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S484] Tyler Morning Telegraph online, April 2022. [S222] http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/i/n/Mark-O-Minter/GENE1-0002.html, Mar 2015. [S484] Tyler Morning Telegraph online, April 2022, obituary. (Reliability: 3).