Virginia Lee Mullins
September 22, 1930 - August 2, 2012
Virginia Lee Mullins, 81, passed peacefully from this life on Thursday, August 2, 2012 after a nine-month battle with acute myelocytic leukemia. Jenny is survived by her husband of 62 years, Hugh Mullins, of the home; son Richard Mullins, of Midwest City, Mandy Wilkerson, of Norman, and grandson Mason Mullins, of Midwest City; son Michael Mullins and daughter-in-law Gail, of Norman; and granddaughters Ashley Nelson and her husband Matthew, of Oklahoma City, Meghan Mullins, of Palo Alto, California, and Kelsey Mullins, of Norman. Her sister Doris Morrow, sister-in-law Marilyn Fool, and many nieces and nephews also survive her. Jenny's parents, Scottie and Richard Fool, and her brother, Thomas, preceded her in death. Jenny was born in Porum, Oklahoma, on September 22, 1930. After graduating from Porum High School, she moved to Oklahoma City where she met Hugh in a Sunday school class shortly after he returned from serving in Europe during World War II. Jenny and Hugh were married on July 2, 1950, and lived in Midwest City until moving to Rivermont in Norman last January. Jenny worked for many years as a secretary at Soldier Creek Elementary and Carl Albert High School in Midwest City. She was an active and beloved member of the First Christian Church of Midwest City, where she served her church as a deacon, a member of the Christian Women's Fellowship, a member of the handbell choir, and in ways known only to the beneficiaries of her many kindnesses. Jenny's legacy is her devotion to her children and grandchildren and her remarkable ministry of quilting. No baby born in her church family went home from the hospital without a quilt handmade by her, and she was always willing to make a quilt or hand-smock an item for a charity raffle or auction. After surviving breast cancer nearly twenty years ago, she lovingly made scarves and turbans for women in treatment. When she retired from Carl Albert High School, she began a second "career" and machine-quilted for others until her diagnosis last fall. Jenny was a long-time member of the Central Oklahoma Quilters' Guild, and loved winning ribbons at quilting shows. She also spent countless hours helping to make competition costumes for her granddaughters' pom and dance squads. She loved to teach others to quilt and sew, and her grandchildren still treasure the hand-smocked clothing and Easter baskets from their childhoods. The family wishes to thank Dr. Kathy Dagg, Julie Pitts, R.N., and the devoted nursing staff at the Norman Regional Hospital Palliative Care Unit and Infusion Center. Their hugs and kisses, endless cups of coffee, kindness, and caring went far beyond what Jenny and the family could have expected during Jenny's almost daily trips to the hospital and her long final stay. Graveside Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at Sunny Lane Cemetery. Memorial Services will be held 2:00 P.M. Tuesday August 14, 2012 at First Christian Church of Midwest City, located at Anderson Road & Reno Avenue. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations may be made to the First Christian Church of Midwest City or the American Cancer Society, or that your next act of kindness to another person be made simply in loving memory of Jenny.
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