Mildred was unique and special to me (Virginia Ginn, her daughter-in-law). Born in the big state of Texas, she was 6 feet tall herself. She married a man from Georgia, and was as sweet as the Georgia peach, although she could certainly hold her own in any and all circumstances.
She loved her family's history, and the small, rural town of Tolar, Texas, where she was born to David Madison Meeker and Mattie Dunn Meeker on an icy cold night in March, 1914. She was their oldest child, and would eventually have two younger brothers, born in Granbury, Texas.
It was in Granbury that Mildred went to school with Davy Crockett's great grandson.
After graduating from high school, she went to work in Ft. Worth at the Montgomery Ward Catalog House until 1935. It was then that she met Joseph Miles Ginn from Georgia. They had a two week courtship, marrying on August 4, 1935.
They moved to Fairburn, Georgia, bought land there and built and operated Joe Ginn Groceries Store. Joe built a home onto the back of the store, adding additional rooms as the family grew. Mildred and Joe had 4 children, Genevia, Joe Lovelace, Jessie and Victor.
After her husband died in 1987, Mildred and her son, Joe, continued to run the store. "Progress" finally caught up with them, and she sold the store in 1993 to the Department of Transportation, as they wanted to widen Highway 29, making it a four-lane highway. Mildred had lived there for 56 years.
She moved into a small, charming home in Newnan, Georgia, and attended Andrew's Chapel. She was just shy of her 90th birthday when she passed away in 2004.
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Mrs. Mildred Ginn of Newnan died January 8, 2004. She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Genevia Steele and James Powers,Hampton;Jessie and Wendell Johns, Carlsbad, NM; brother, Harold and Wanda Meeker, Azela, TX; grandchildren, Geir and Cindy Steele Kilen, James Steele, Jay and Denise Tompkins and Andrew and Michelle Johns. great grandchildren, Kristianna,Monica, and Andrea Kilen, Christy Steele. great great grandson, Hunter Allen Tidd. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Park.
She loved her family's history, and the small, rural town of Tolar, Texas, where she was born to David Madison Meeker and Mattie Dunn Meeker on an icy cold night in March, 1914. She was their oldest child, and would eventually have two younger brothers, born in Granbury, Texas.
It was in Granbury that Mildred went to school with Davy Crockett's great grandson.
After graduating from high school, she went to work in Ft. Worth at the Montgomery Ward Catalog House until 1935. It was then that she met Joseph Miles Ginn from Georgia. They had a two week courtship, marrying on August 4, 1935.
They moved to Fairburn, Georgia, bought land there and built and operated Joe Ginn Groceries Store. Joe built a home onto the back of the store, adding additional rooms as the family grew. Mildred and Joe had 4 children, Genevia, Joe Lovelace, Jessie and Victor.
After her husband died in 1987, Mildred and her son, Joe, continued to run the store. "Progress" finally caught up with them, and she sold the store in 1993 to the Department of Transportation, as they wanted to widen Highway 29, making it a four-lane highway. Mildred had lived there for 56 years.
She moved into a small, charming home in Newnan, Georgia, and attended Andrew's Chapel. She was just shy of her 90th birthday when she passed away in 2004.
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Mrs. Mildred Ginn of Newnan died January 8, 2004. She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Genevia Steele and James Powers,Hampton;Jessie and Wendell Johns, Carlsbad, NM; brother, Harold and Wanda Meeker, Azela, TX; grandchildren, Geir and Cindy Steele Kilen, James Steele, Jay and Denise Tompkins and Andrew and Michelle Johns. great grandchildren, Kristianna,Monica, and Andrea Kilen, Christy Steele. great great grandson, Hunter Allen Tidd. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Park.
Mildred was unique and special to me (Virginia Ginn, her daughter-in-law). Born in the big state of Texas, she was 6 feet tall herself. She married a man from Georgia, and was as sweet as the Georgia peach, although she could certainly hold her own in any and all circumstances.
She loved her family's history, and the small, rural town of Tolar, Texas, where she was born to David Madison Meeker and Mattie Dunn Meeker on an icy cold night in March, 1914. She was their oldest child, and would eventually have two younger brothers, born in Granbury, Texas.
It was in Granbury that Mildred went to school with Davy Crockett's great grandson.
After graduating from high school, she went to work in Ft. Worth at the Montgomery Ward Catalog House until 1935. It was then that she met Joseph Miles Ginn from Georgia. They had a two week courtship, marrying on August 4, 1935.
They moved to Fairburn, Georgia, bought land there and built and operated Joe Ginn Groceries Store. Joe built a home onto the back of the store, adding additional rooms as the family grew. Mildred and Joe had 4 children, Genevia, Joe Lovelace, Jessie and Victor.
After her husband died in 1987, Mildred and her son, Joe, continued to run the store. "Progress" finally caught up with them, and she sold the store in 1993 to the Department of Transportation, as they wanted to widen Highway 29, making it a four-lane highway. Mildred had lived there for 56 years.
She moved into a small, charming home in Newnan, Georgia, and attended Andrew's Chapel. She was just shy of her 90th birthday when she passed away in 2004.
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Mrs. Mildred Ginn of Newnan died January 8, 2004. She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Genevia Steele and James Powers,Hampton;Jessie and Wendell Johns, Carlsbad, NM; brother, Harold and Wanda Meeker, Azela, TX; grandchildren, Geir and Cindy Steele Kilen, James Steele, Jay and Denise Tompkins and Andrew and Michelle Johns. great grandchildren, Kristianna,Monica, and Andrea Kilen, Christy Steele. great great grandson, Hunter Allen Tidd. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Park.
She loved her family's history, and the small, rural town of Tolar, Texas, where she was born to David Madison Meeker and Mattie Dunn Meeker on an icy cold night in March, 1914. She was their oldest child, and would eventually have two younger brothers, born in Granbury, Texas.
It was in Granbury that Mildred went to school with Davy Crockett's great grandson.
After graduating from high school, she went to work in Ft. Worth at the Montgomery Ward Catalog House until 1935. It was then that she met Joseph Miles Ginn from Georgia. They had a two week courtship, marrying on August 4, 1935.
They moved to Fairburn, Georgia, bought land there and built and operated Joe Ginn Groceries Store. Joe built a home onto the back of the store, adding additional rooms as the family grew. Mildred and Joe had 4 children, Genevia, Joe Lovelace, Jessie and Victor.
After her husband died in 1987, Mildred and her son, Joe, continued to run the store. "Progress" finally caught up with them, and she sold the store in 1993 to the Department of Transportation, as they wanted to widen Highway 29, making it a four-lane highway. Mildred had lived there for 56 years.
She moved into a small, charming home in Newnan, Georgia, and attended Andrew's Chapel. She was just shy of her 90th birthday when she passed away in 2004.
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Mrs. Mildred Ginn of Newnan died January 8, 2004. She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Genevia Steele and James Powers,Hampton;Jessie and Wendell Johns, Carlsbad, NM; brother, Harold and Wanda Meeker, Azela, TX; grandchildren, Geir and Cindy Steele Kilen, James Steele, Jay and Denise Tompkins and Andrew and Michelle Johns. great grandchildren, Kristianna,Monica, and Andrea Kilen, Christy Steele. great great grandson, Hunter Allen Tidd. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Park.
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