Virginia Adams Thomas age 84 of Marianna passed away on Saturday, September 14, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Coming of age in the1950’s she was truly a product of that time with pony tails, bobby socks, saddle oxfords, and a poodle skirt. She loved singing, music and was a high school majorette. Graduating in 1953 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, TX, she was a member of the Grand Assembly of Texas Order of the Rainbow for Girls 1953 and initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star the same year.
She graduated in 1956 from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Houston, TX where she met her Charlie, a young Air Force Lieutenant stationed nearby at Ellington Air Force base. Newly married in 1956 to Lt. Leland “Charlie” Thomas, she began a career in nursing and supporting her husband’s 30-year Air Force career traveling the world with kids, cats, and dogs. As a military wife she was on the front lines of the Cold War dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charlie’s tours in Vietnam, countless deployments, and 15 moves to different duty stations before retiring to Marianna in 1984.
She loved her children and their friends, her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved traveling the world, loved her friends, and she loved gardening.
She and Charlie are members of the First United Methodist Church in Marianna where she taught Sunday School.
Virginia is survived by:
two sons and a daughter-in-law
a daughter and her husband
four grandchildren
five great grandchildren
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
-Mitch Albom
She was preceded in death by:
her parents William B. and Virginia L. Adams
her three brothers William B. Adams Jr., Milton “Sammy” Adams, and Michael Adams
her husband Col. Leland C. Thomas
Services for Virginia were held Friday, September 27, 2019 in the First United Methodist Church of Marianna with Nathan Attwood officiating. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery.
Obituary published on Marianna Funeral Home of Marianna, FL. web site.
Coming of age in the1950’s she was truly a product of that time with pony tails, bobby socks, saddle oxfords, and a poodle skirt. She loved singing, music and was a high school majorette. Graduating in 1953 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, TX, she was a member of the Grand Assembly of Texas Order of the Rainbow for Girls 1953 and initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star the same year.
She graduated in 1956 from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Houston, TX where she met her Charlie, a young Air Force Lieutenant stationed nearby at Ellington Air Force base. Newly married in 1956 to Lt. Leland “Charlie” Thomas, she began a career in nursing and supporting her husband’s 30-year Air Force career traveling the world with kids, cats, and dogs. As a military wife she was on the front lines of the Cold War dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charlie’s tours in Vietnam, countless deployments, and 15 moves to different duty stations before retiring to Marianna in 1984.
She loved her children and their friends, her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved traveling the world, loved her friends, and she loved gardening.
She and Charlie are members of the First United Methodist Church in Marianna where she taught Sunday School.
Virginia is survived by:
two sons and a daughter-in-law
a daughter and her husband
four grandchildren
five great grandchildren
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
-Mitch Albom
She was preceded in death by:
her parents William B. and Virginia L. Adams
her three brothers William B. Adams Jr., Milton “Sammy” Adams, and Michael Adams
her husband Col. Leland C. Thomas
Services for Virginia were held Friday, September 27, 2019 in the First United Methodist Church of Marianna with Nathan Attwood officiating. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery.
Obituary published on Marianna Funeral Home of Marianna, FL. web site.
Virginia Adams Thomas age 84 of Marianna passed away on Saturday, September 14, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Coming of age in the1950’s she was truly a product of that time with pony tails, bobby socks, saddle oxfords, and a poodle skirt. She loved singing, music and was a high school majorette. Graduating in 1953 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, TX, she was a member of the Grand Assembly of Texas Order of the Rainbow for Girls 1953 and initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star the same year.
She graduated in 1956 from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Houston, TX where she met her Charlie, a young Air Force Lieutenant stationed nearby at Ellington Air Force base. Newly married in 1956 to Lt. Leland “Charlie” Thomas, she began a career in nursing and supporting her husband’s 30-year Air Force career traveling the world with kids, cats, and dogs. As a military wife she was on the front lines of the Cold War dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charlie’s tours in Vietnam, countless deployments, and 15 moves to different duty stations before retiring to Marianna in 1984.
She loved her children and their friends, her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved traveling the world, loved her friends, and she loved gardening.
She and Charlie are members of the First United Methodist Church in Marianna where she taught Sunday School.
Virginia is survived by:
two sons and a daughter-in-law
a daughter and her husband
four grandchildren
five great grandchildren
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
-Mitch Albom
She was preceded in death by:
her parents William B. and Virginia L. Adams
her three brothers William B. Adams Jr., Milton “Sammy” Adams, and Michael Adams
her husband Col. Leland C. Thomas
Services for Virginia were held Friday, September 27, 2019 in the First United Methodist Church of Marianna with Nathan Attwood officiating. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery.
Obituary published on Marianna Funeral Home of Marianna, FL. web site.
Coming of age in the1950’s she was truly a product of that time with pony tails, bobby socks, saddle oxfords, and a poodle skirt. She loved singing, music and was a high school majorette. Graduating in 1953 from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, TX, she was a member of the Grand Assembly of Texas Order of the Rainbow for Girls 1953 and initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star the same year.
She graduated in 1956 from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Houston, TX where she met her Charlie, a young Air Force Lieutenant stationed nearby at Ellington Air Force base. Newly married in 1956 to Lt. Leland “Charlie” Thomas, she began a career in nursing and supporting her husband’s 30-year Air Force career traveling the world with kids, cats, and dogs. As a military wife she was on the front lines of the Cold War dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charlie’s tours in Vietnam, countless deployments, and 15 moves to different duty stations before retiring to Marianna in 1984.
She loved her children and their friends, her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved traveling the world, loved her friends, and she loved gardening.
She and Charlie are members of the First United Methodist Church in Marianna where she taught Sunday School.
Virginia is survived by:
two sons and a daughter-in-law
a daughter and her husband
four grandchildren
five great grandchildren
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”
-Mitch Albom
She was preceded in death by:
her parents William B. and Virginia L. Adams
her three brothers William B. Adams Jr., Milton “Sammy” Adams, and Michael Adams
her husband Col. Leland C. Thomas
Services for Virginia were held Friday, September 27, 2019 in the First United Methodist Church of Marianna with Nathan Attwood officiating. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery.
Obituary published on Marianna Funeral Home of Marianna, FL. web site.
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