IRVING - Violet Caldwell Andrews, 99, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, at her residence in Valley Ranch.
Her body was donated to UT Southwestern Medical Center for scientific research. An announcement of the burial of the ashes will be made at a later date.
As a lifelong Texan she found time to follow a family tradition and master Texas 42: as a woman of her times she enjoyed playing bridge. When a young woman Violet was a member of the Fort Worth Women's Marching Band, and attended the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Born before women had the right to vote, she lived to vote for a woman to be nominee for president of the United States. With her optimistic nature and ready smile she made many friends.
Violet worked at Stripling's Department Store, Fort Worth, in the 1920s and 1930s. This period of her career spanned 15 years. From 1957 to 1975, she worked for the U.S. Postal Service, also in Fort Worth.
Among the churches where Violet was a parishioner were St. George Catholic Church in Fort Worth, St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Richland Hills, and St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell. Prior to her elder age, she participated in many activities centered on the church and the parish schools her children attended.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Andrews; her son, James W. Andrews Jr.; brothers, Dr. William V. Caldwell of Flint, Mich., and the Rev. M.B. Caldwell of Porterville, Calif.; and sister-in-law, Cora Caldwell of Mill Valley, Calif.
Survivors: Daughters, Mary Jo Hilsinger and Vera Elaine Andrews; sons, George Thomas Andrews and William David Andrews; daughter-in-law, Kathy Patrick Andrews; and grandson, James Patrick Andrews, all of Irving. She also leaves three nephews, David Caldwell of Bella Vista, Ark., Joe Caldwell of Sausalito, Calif., and Thomas Jefferson Caldwell of Lapeer, Mich.; niece, Deborah Solinas of Hanover, Md.; and her sister-in-law, Beatrice Caldwell of Ann Arbor, Mich. As the descendant of early Texas settlers she is also survived by many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her two brothers and 23 first cousins.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) — Sunday, February 26, 2012
Her body was donated to UT Southwestern Medical Center for scientific research. An announcement of the burial of the ashes will be made at a later date.
As a lifelong Texan she found time to follow a family tradition and master Texas 42: as a woman of her times she enjoyed playing bridge. When a young woman Violet was a member of the Fort Worth Women's Marching Band, and attended the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Born before women had the right to vote, she lived to vote for a woman to be nominee for president of the United States. With her optimistic nature and ready smile she made many friends.
Violet worked at Stripling's Department Store, Fort Worth, in the 1920s and 1930s. This period of her career spanned 15 years. From 1957 to 1975, she worked for the U.S. Postal Service, also in Fort Worth.
Among the churches where Violet was a parishioner were St. George Catholic Church in Fort Worth, St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Richland Hills, and St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell. Prior to her elder age, she participated in many activities centered on the church and the parish schools her children attended.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Andrews; her son, James W. Andrews Jr.; brothers, Dr. William V. Caldwell of Flint, Mich., and the Rev. M.B. Caldwell of Porterville, Calif.; and sister-in-law, Cora Caldwell of Mill Valley, Calif.
Survivors: Daughters, Mary Jo Hilsinger and Vera Elaine Andrews; sons, George Thomas Andrews and William David Andrews; daughter-in-law, Kathy Patrick Andrews; and grandson, James Patrick Andrews, all of Irving. She also leaves three nephews, David Caldwell of Bella Vista, Ark., Joe Caldwell of Sausalito, Calif., and Thomas Jefferson Caldwell of Lapeer, Mich.; niece, Deborah Solinas of Hanover, Md.; and her sister-in-law, Beatrice Caldwell of Ann Arbor, Mich. As the descendant of early Texas settlers she is also survived by many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her two brothers and 23 first cousins.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) — Sunday, February 26, 2012
IRVING - Violet Caldwell Andrews, 99, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, at her residence in Valley Ranch.
Her body was donated to UT Southwestern Medical Center for scientific research. An announcement of the burial of the ashes will be made at a later date.
As a lifelong Texan she found time to follow a family tradition and master Texas 42: as a woman of her times she enjoyed playing bridge. When a young woman Violet was a member of the Fort Worth Women's Marching Band, and attended the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Born before women had the right to vote, she lived to vote for a woman to be nominee for president of the United States. With her optimistic nature and ready smile she made many friends.
Violet worked at Stripling's Department Store, Fort Worth, in the 1920s and 1930s. This period of her career spanned 15 years. From 1957 to 1975, she worked for the U.S. Postal Service, also in Fort Worth.
Among the churches where Violet was a parishioner were St. George Catholic Church in Fort Worth, St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Richland Hills, and St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell. Prior to her elder age, she participated in many activities centered on the church and the parish schools her children attended.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Andrews; her son, James W. Andrews Jr.; brothers, Dr. William V. Caldwell of Flint, Mich., and the Rev. M.B. Caldwell of Porterville, Calif.; and sister-in-law, Cora Caldwell of Mill Valley, Calif.
Survivors: Daughters, Mary Jo Hilsinger and Vera Elaine Andrews; sons, George Thomas Andrews and William David Andrews; daughter-in-law, Kathy Patrick Andrews; and grandson, James Patrick Andrews, all of Irving. She also leaves three nephews, David Caldwell of Bella Vista, Ark., Joe Caldwell of Sausalito, Calif., and Thomas Jefferson Caldwell of Lapeer, Mich.; niece, Deborah Solinas of Hanover, Md.; and her sister-in-law, Beatrice Caldwell of Ann Arbor, Mich. As the descendant of early Texas settlers she is also survived by many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her two brothers and 23 first cousins.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) — Sunday, February 26, 2012
Her body was donated to UT Southwestern Medical Center for scientific research. An announcement of the burial of the ashes will be made at a later date.
As a lifelong Texan she found time to follow a family tradition and master Texas 42: as a woman of her times she enjoyed playing bridge. When a young woman Violet was a member of the Fort Worth Women's Marching Band, and attended the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Born before women had the right to vote, she lived to vote for a woman to be nominee for president of the United States. With her optimistic nature and ready smile she made many friends.
Violet worked at Stripling's Department Store, Fort Worth, in the 1920s and 1930s. This period of her career spanned 15 years. From 1957 to 1975, she worked for the U.S. Postal Service, also in Fort Worth.
Among the churches where Violet was a parishioner were St. George Catholic Church in Fort Worth, St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Richland Hills, and St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell. Prior to her elder age, she participated in many activities centered on the church and the parish schools her children attended.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Andrews; her son, James W. Andrews Jr.; brothers, Dr. William V. Caldwell of Flint, Mich., and the Rev. M.B. Caldwell of Porterville, Calif.; and sister-in-law, Cora Caldwell of Mill Valley, Calif.
Survivors: Daughters, Mary Jo Hilsinger and Vera Elaine Andrews; sons, George Thomas Andrews and William David Andrews; daughter-in-law, Kathy Patrick Andrews; and grandson, James Patrick Andrews, all of Irving. She also leaves three nephews, David Caldwell of Bella Vista, Ark., Joe Caldwell of Sausalito, Calif., and Thomas Jefferson Caldwell of Lapeer, Mich.; niece, Deborah Solinas of Hanover, Md.; and her sister-in-law, Beatrice Caldwell of Ann Arbor, Mich. As the descendant of early Texas settlers she is also survived by many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her two brothers and 23 first cousins.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) — Sunday, February 26, 2012
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