Virginia Portis Cross, 100, of Lepanto, Arkansas departed this life on Sunday, June 3, 2018 at her home. She was born on October 10, 1917 to D.F. Sr and Agnes Mays Portis.
Virginia attended Gulf Park School for girls in Gulfport, Mississippi and graduated from The Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1935. She married Hi Cross in August of 1936 and they raised their family in Lepanto. She was the first Terrapin Derby Queen of Lepanto. She was an active member of The United Methodist Church, Lepanto PTA, Lepanto Museum, the Garden Club and the Art Club. Ninya, as her grandchildren called her loved her family, her church, her flowers and her yard. People all over town loved to ride by her house to see a 97-year-old blowing the leaves in the driveway.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband: Hi Cross, Sr., three sisters: Elizabeth (Tommy) Thompson, Lorine (Frank) Bell and Nina Lou (T.B.) Goldsby and two brothers: Dan (Juliet) Portis and J.C. (Evelyn Ann) Portis.
Virginia attended Gulf Park School for girls in Gulfport, Mississippi and graduated from The Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1935. She married Hi Cross in August of 1936 and they raised their family in Lepanto. She was the first Terrapin Derby Queen of Lepanto. She was an active member of The United Methodist Church, Lepanto PTA, Lepanto Museum, the Garden Club and the Art Club. Ninya, as her grandchildren called her loved her family, her church, her flowers and her yard. People all over town loved to ride by her house to see a 97-year-old blowing the leaves in the driveway.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband: Hi Cross, Sr., three sisters: Elizabeth (Tommy) Thompson, Lorine (Frank) Bell and Nina Lou (T.B.) Goldsby and two brothers: Dan (Juliet) Portis and J.C. (Evelyn Ann) Portis.
Virginia Portis Cross, 100, of Lepanto, Arkansas departed this life on Sunday, June 3, 2018 at her home. She was born on October 10, 1917 to D.F. Sr and Agnes Mays Portis.
Virginia attended Gulf Park School for girls in Gulfport, Mississippi and graduated from The Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1935. She married Hi Cross in August of 1936 and they raised their family in Lepanto. She was the first Terrapin Derby Queen of Lepanto. She was an active member of The United Methodist Church, Lepanto PTA, Lepanto Museum, the Garden Club and the Art Club. Ninya, as her grandchildren called her loved her family, her church, her flowers and her yard. People all over town loved to ride by her house to see a 97-year-old blowing the leaves in the driveway.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband: Hi Cross, Sr., three sisters: Elizabeth (Tommy) Thompson, Lorine (Frank) Bell and Nina Lou (T.B.) Goldsby and two brothers: Dan (Juliet) Portis and J.C. (Evelyn Ann) Portis.
Virginia attended Gulf Park School for girls in Gulfport, Mississippi and graduated from The Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1935. She married Hi Cross in August of 1936 and they raised their family in Lepanto. She was the first Terrapin Derby Queen of Lepanto. She was an active member of The United Methodist Church, Lepanto PTA, Lepanto Museum, the Garden Club and the Art Club. Ninya, as her grandchildren called her loved her family, her church, her flowers and her yard. People all over town loved to ride by her house to see a 97-year-old blowing the leaves in the driveway.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband: Hi Cross, Sr., three sisters: Elizabeth (Tommy) Thompson, Lorine (Frank) Bell and Nina Lou (T.B.) Goldsby and two brothers: Dan (Juliet) Portis and J.C. (Evelyn Ann) Portis.
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