MARKS, Mary Virginia Windrow
THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1932
DEATH– In the afternoon at 2 o’clock on Monday, the auditorium of the Methodist church was taxed to its capacity with friends and loved ones who had gathered to pay a last tribute of respect to the passing of one of Ripley’s dearest and sweetest young mothers, Mrs. Mary Virginia Windrow MARKS. Sad indeed, was the untimely death of this good woman. On Thursday afternoon of last week, February 18, she was suddenly stricken just as she arrived home from a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association, and her attending physicians, realizing the seriousness of her condition, saw that an immediate operation was necessary, if her life was to be saved, and she was carried to the Brownsville Hospital. The husband, T. V. (Jack) MARKS, who was in Birmingham, Ala., was communicated with and at his request Dr. Eugene JOHNSON, of Memphis was called and performed the operation a few hours later, for an internal hemorrhage. The depleted condition of her system from loss of blood, rendered her an easy prey to pneumonia which developed Saturday night, and at 9 o’clock Sunday morning, the hour when she would have been going to the Ripley Methodist Church to teach her Sunday school class, her sweet spirit took its flight to the heavenly home. It was also in this church, on June 7, 1923, that she and Mr. MARKS were married, and how appropriate it was that her remains should be brought back to the place she so loved and where those sacred vows had been pledged. Two bright, beautiful children had blessed union; Mary Jack MARKS, aged seven years and Thomas Windrow MARKS, almost two years. Mrs. MARKS was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Frank WINDROW, and had just passed her 35th birthday, being born February 10, 1897.