The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 25, 1986:
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex died Friday in a Fort Worth nursing home.
A private graveside service will be held at Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas.
Mrs. Mullinex was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and St. Hilda's Guild in Fort Worth. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Desk and Derrick Club in Fort Worth.
Survivors include her husband, Donald R. Mullinex of Fort Worth; a daughter, Elizabeth Glass Ross of Fort Worth; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 18 1964:
STAND-IN GARDENERS
Helping Hand Find Hobby
BY PAT CASTILLON
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Mullinex of 3816 Glenwood Dr. have found a new hobby which has resulted from doing a good deed.
Neither was much interested in yards and gardening until they found themselves "baby-sitting" the home and garden of Mrs. Mullinex's daughter, Mrs. Sul Ross IV, while she is in Guam, and now they are converts to the green thumb ranks.
Mrs. Ross is in Guam with her husband, Major Ross, and their children, Sul V, 17, and Julie Ann, 15. Finding someone to tend their yard while they were gone was one of the major problems of their going overseas because Ross' hobby is gardening and he has a fine collection of exotic and native plants.
MRS. MULLINEX had just retired after working 29 years for Cosden Petroleum, so it was planned that she and her husband would move into the Ross home for the duration.
Besides providing them with a new hobby, Mrs. Mullinex has had another pleasant result from the arrangement. "I've found that I don't miss Elizabeth as much as I would if I weren't living in her home," she said.
Ross planned his yard so that he would have some color every month of the year, blooms, berries or bright foliage, and Mrs. Mullinex has kept the plan, too. The basic plantings are flowering shrubs and trees, bulbs and perennials, with bedding plants added for variety.
"I PLANTED PANSIES last fall and they bloomed all winter, even in the snow," Mrs. Mullinex said. Color in the yard now is being given by Rose of Sharon, and eight foot high shrub covered with pink blossoms; sultana, coleus, croton, barberry, a red plum tree, flowering pomegranate, phlox, canterbury bells, hydrangea, and pink and white crape myrtle. Also, there are tropical plantings such as ferns, bamboo, elephant ears, variegated aucuba and oleander.
"In the spring pink and blue, Elizabeth's favorite colors, are the main colors," Mrs. Mullinex said. "Then there are pink Perfection, camellias, all kinds of day lilies, pink crabapple, azaleas, star phlox, plumbago, Gerber daisies, pink magnolia, heather, pink ajuga, pink hawthorn and a pale pink japonica that looks like apple blossoms."
The pinks accent the house, which is built of pink adobe brick. Native pecans, elms, oaks and haw trees have been supplemented by live oaks, red oaks and tree shaped yaupon.
All the beds are different and each is a horticulture showcase. There are no "rows" of plantings; the curved outlines of the beds were designed by Ross for cluster planting.
MOST OF THE YARD is being maintained in the way Ross had it planned when he left, but Mrs. Mullinex has added one thing as a surprise for them when they return next year, a small rock garden made from some beautiful rocks she and her husband brought back from Uvalde and Marble Falls.
The area is in deep shade, so her plantings are sultana for color, fern and holly.
Fungus, bugs and drouth have kept the Mullinexes busy seeking and applying remedies, but the result is a yard that just may be more beautiful when the Rosses return than when they left.
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1920 Census - Occupation: Stenographer, Industry: Cotton Seed Products (Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas)
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Married William Vernon Cummins on June 18, 1921 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Married William Thomas Glass sometime before 1924.
Married Donald Rudolph Mullinex on Nov. 23, 1945 in Denton, Denton Co., Texas.
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex died Friday in a Fort Worth nursing home.
A private graveside service will be held at Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas.
Mrs. Mullinex was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and St. Hilda's Guild in Fort Worth. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Desk and Derrick Club in Fort Worth.
Survivors include her husband, Donald R. Mullinex of Fort Worth; a daughter, Elizabeth Glass Ross of Fort Worth; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 18 1964:
STAND-IN GARDENERS
Helping Hand Find Hobby
BY PAT CASTILLON
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Mullinex of 3816 Glenwood Dr. have found a new hobby which has resulted from doing a good deed.
Neither was much interested in yards and gardening until they found themselves "baby-sitting" the home and garden of Mrs. Mullinex's daughter, Mrs. Sul Ross IV, while she is in Guam, and now they are converts to the green thumb ranks.
Mrs. Ross is in Guam with her husband, Major Ross, and their children, Sul V, 17, and Julie Ann, 15. Finding someone to tend their yard while they were gone was one of the major problems of their going overseas because Ross' hobby is gardening and he has a fine collection of exotic and native plants.
MRS. MULLINEX had just retired after working 29 years for Cosden Petroleum, so it was planned that she and her husband would move into the Ross home for the duration.
Besides providing them with a new hobby, Mrs. Mullinex has had another pleasant result from the arrangement. "I've found that I don't miss Elizabeth as much as I would if I weren't living in her home," she said.
Ross planned his yard so that he would have some color every month of the year, blooms, berries or bright foliage, and Mrs. Mullinex has kept the plan, too. The basic plantings are flowering shrubs and trees, bulbs and perennials, with bedding plants added for variety.
"I PLANTED PANSIES last fall and they bloomed all winter, even in the snow," Mrs. Mullinex said. Color in the yard now is being given by Rose of Sharon, and eight foot high shrub covered with pink blossoms; sultana, coleus, croton, barberry, a red plum tree, flowering pomegranate, phlox, canterbury bells, hydrangea, and pink and white crape myrtle. Also, there are tropical plantings such as ferns, bamboo, elephant ears, variegated aucuba and oleander.
"In the spring pink and blue, Elizabeth's favorite colors, are the main colors," Mrs. Mullinex said. "Then there are pink Perfection, camellias, all kinds of day lilies, pink crabapple, azaleas, star phlox, plumbago, Gerber daisies, pink magnolia, heather, pink ajuga, pink hawthorn and a pale pink japonica that looks like apple blossoms."
The pinks accent the house, which is built of pink adobe brick. Native pecans, elms, oaks and haw trees have been supplemented by live oaks, red oaks and tree shaped yaupon.
All the beds are different and each is a horticulture showcase. There are no "rows" of plantings; the curved outlines of the beds were designed by Ross for cluster planting.
MOST OF THE YARD is being maintained in the way Ross had it planned when he left, but Mrs. Mullinex has added one thing as a surprise for them when they return next year, a small rock garden made from some beautiful rocks she and her husband brought back from Uvalde and Marble Falls.
The area is in deep shade, so her plantings are sultana for color, fern and holly.
Fungus, bugs and drouth have kept the Mullinexes busy seeking and applying remedies, but the result is a yard that just may be more beautiful when the Rosses return than when they left.
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1920 Census - Occupation: Stenographer, Industry: Cotton Seed Products (Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas)
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Married William Vernon Cummins on June 18, 1921 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Married William Thomas Glass sometime before 1924.
Married Donald Rudolph Mullinex on Nov. 23, 1945 in Denton, Denton Co., Texas.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 25, 1986:
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex died Friday in a Fort Worth nursing home.
A private graveside service will be held at Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas.
Mrs. Mullinex was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and St. Hilda's Guild in Fort Worth. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Desk and Derrick Club in Fort Worth.
Survivors include her husband, Donald R. Mullinex of Fort Worth; a daughter, Elizabeth Glass Ross of Fort Worth; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 18 1964:
STAND-IN GARDENERS
Helping Hand Find Hobby
BY PAT CASTILLON
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Mullinex of 3816 Glenwood Dr. have found a new hobby which has resulted from doing a good deed.
Neither was much interested in yards and gardening until they found themselves "baby-sitting" the home and garden of Mrs. Mullinex's daughter, Mrs. Sul Ross IV, while she is in Guam, and now they are converts to the green thumb ranks.
Mrs. Ross is in Guam with her husband, Major Ross, and their children, Sul V, 17, and Julie Ann, 15. Finding someone to tend their yard while they were gone was one of the major problems of their going overseas because Ross' hobby is gardening and he has a fine collection of exotic and native plants.
MRS. MULLINEX had just retired after working 29 years for Cosden Petroleum, so it was planned that she and her husband would move into the Ross home for the duration.
Besides providing them with a new hobby, Mrs. Mullinex has had another pleasant result from the arrangement. "I've found that I don't miss Elizabeth as much as I would if I weren't living in her home," she said.
Ross planned his yard so that he would have some color every month of the year, blooms, berries or bright foliage, and Mrs. Mullinex has kept the plan, too. The basic plantings are flowering shrubs and trees, bulbs and perennials, with bedding plants added for variety.
"I PLANTED PANSIES last fall and they bloomed all winter, even in the snow," Mrs. Mullinex said. Color in the yard now is being given by Rose of Sharon, and eight foot high shrub covered with pink blossoms; sultana, coleus, croton, barberry, a red plum tree, flowering pomegranate, phlox, canterbury bells, hydrangea, and pink and white crape myrtle. Also, there are tropical plantings such as ferns, bamboo, elephant ears, variegated aucuba and oleander.
"In the spring pink and blue, Elizabeth's favorite colors, are the main colors," Mrs. Mullinex said. "Then there are pink Perfection, camellias, all kinds of day lilies, pink crabapple, azaleas, star phlox, plumbago, Gerber daisies, pink magnolia, heather, pink ajuga, pink hawthorn and a pale pink japonica that looks like apple blossoms."
The pinks accent the house, which is built of pink adobe brick. Native pecans, elms, oaks and haw trees have been supplemented by live oaks, red oaks and tree shaped yaupon.
All the beds are different and each is a horticulture showcase. There are no "rows" of plantings; the curved outlines of the beds were designed by Ross for cluster planting.
MOST OF THE YARD is being maintained in the way Ross had it planned when he left, but Mrs. Mullinex has added one thing as a surprise for them when they return next year, a small rock garden made from some beautiful rocks she and her husband brought back from Uvalde and Marble Falls.
The area is in deep shade, so her plantings are sultana for color, fern and holly.
Fungus, bugs and drouth have kept the Mullinexes busy seeking and applying remedies, but the result is a yard that just may be more beautiful when the Rosses return than when they left.
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1920 Census - Occupation: Stenographer, Industry: Cotton Seed Products (Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas)
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Married William Vernon Cummins on June 18, 1921 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Married William Thomas Glass sometime before 1924.
Married Donald Rudolph Mullinex on Nov. 23, 1945 in Denton, Denton Co., Texas.
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex
Velva Elizabeth Mullinex died Friday in a Fort Worth nursing home.
A private graveside service will be held at Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas.
Mrs. Mullinex was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and St. Hilda's Guild in Fort Worth. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Desk and Derrick Club in Fort Worth.
Survivors include her husband, Donald R. Mullinex of Fort Worth; a daughter, Elizabeth Glass Ross of Fort Worth; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 18 1964:
STAND-IN GARDENERS
Helping Hand Find Hobby
BY PAT CASTILLON
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Mullinex of 3816 Glenwood Dr. have found a new hobby which has resulted from doing a good deed.
Neither was much interested in yards and gardening until they found themselves "baby-sitting" the home and garden of Mrs. Mullinex's daughter, Mrs. Sul Ross IV, while she is in Guam, and now they are converts to the green thumb ranks.
Mrs. Ross is in Guam with her husband, Major Ross, and their children, Sul V, 17, and Julie Ann, 15. Finding someone to tend their yard while they were gone was one of the major problems of their going overseas because Ross' hobby is gardening and he has a fine collection of exotic and native plants.
MRS. MULLINEX had just retired after working 29 years for Cosden Petroleum, so it was planned that she and her husband would move into the Ross home for the duration.
Besides providing them with a new hobby, Mrs. Mullinex has had another pleasant result from the arrangement. "I've found that I don't miss Elizabeth as much as I would if I weren't living in her home," she said.
Ross planned his yard so that he would have some color every month of the year, blooms, berries or bright foliage, and Mrs. Mullinex has kept the plan, too. The basic plantings are flowering shrubs and trees, bulbs and perennials, with bedding plants added for variety.
"I PLANTED PANSIES last fall and they bloomed all winter, even in the snow," Mrs. Mullinex said. Color in the yard now is being given by Rose of Sharon, and eight foot high shrub covered with pink blossoms; sultana, coleus, croton, barberry, a red plum tree, flowering pomegranate, phlox, canterbury bells, hydrangea, and pink and white crape myrtle. Also, there are tropical plantings such as ferns, bamboo, elephant ears, variegated aucuba and oleander.
"In the spring pink and blue, Elizabeth's favorite colors, are the main colors," Mrs. Mullinex said. "Then there are pink Perfection, camellias, all kinds of day lilies, pink crabapple, azaleas, star phlox, plumbago, Gerber daisies, pink magnolia, heather, pink ajuga, pink hawthorn and a pale pink japonica that looks like apple blossoms."
The pinks accent the house, which is built of pink adobe brick. Native pecans, elms, oaks and haw trees have been supplemented by live oaks, red oaks and tree shaped yaupon.
All the beds are different and each is a horticulture showcase. There are no "rows" of plantings; the curved outlines of the beds were designed by Ross for cluster planting.
MOST OF THE YARD is being maintained in the way Ross had it planned when he left, but Mrs. Mullinex has added one thing as a surprise for them when they return next year, a small rock garden made from some beautiful rocks she and her husband brought back from Uvalde and Marble Falls.
The area is in deep shade, so her plantings are sultana for color, fern and holly.
Fungus, bugs and drouth have kept the Mullinexes busy seeking and applying remedies, but the result is a yard that just may be more beautiful when the Rosses return than when they left.
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1920 Census - Occupation: Stenographer, Industry: Cotton Seed Products (Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas)
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Married William Vernon Cummins on June 18, 1921 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas.
Married William Thomas Glass sometime before 1924.
Married Donald Rudolph Mullinex on Nov. 23, 1945 in Denton, Denton Co., Texas.
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