Garvin County Obits - Virginia May Jinx Dowd
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                            Garvin County Obituaries
                                      
                               Virginia May Jinx Dowd
    

Memorial services for Virginia May Jinx Dowd will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept 16, 2001, at Stufflebean Funeral Home Chapel in Pauls Valley.
Reverend Janet Ruark will officiate.

Interment will be at Foster Cemetery under the direction of Stufflebean
Funeral Home of Pauls Valley.

Virginia May Jinx Dowd, retired organization director of the Labor Action
Coalition of New York, died Aug 10, 2001, at Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital 
in Syracuse, New York.  She had been living for the past two years with the
family of her daughter Jyl, In Ithaca.

Ms. Dowd, 79, was born in Wynnewood March 6, 1922, to Dealva Livingston and
Roy Mack Branham.

She was valedictorian of her graduating class at Wynnewood High School and
briefly attended Hill's Business College.

On the eve of World War II, she married John George "Jack" Dowd, with 
whom she had five children.  She moved with him from Ardmore to Ft. Worth,
Texas, to Memphis, Tennessee.

In 1953, they returned to his hometown of Pauls Valley, where she worked
for Perforating Guns Atlas Corp., the Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma State
Senator, Glen Ham, and R.E. Carleton, Superintendent of Schools.

She divorced her husband in 1963.  Two years later she moved with her
younger children to live in Memphis, where she became a private secretary
to the Dean of Rhodes College.

She then moved to Ithaca, New York, where she served as administrative 
secretary to the English Department's graduate program at Cornell University.

Survivors include five children; Jacquelyn Jan Hall of Chapel Hill,N.C., 
Jeanne Grimm of Minneapolis, Minn., Johnny Dowd, Jenifer Edmondson, and
Jyl Dowd of Ithaca; brother, William D. "Bill" Branham; nine grandchildren;
and five nieces and nephews.