Virginia Regan

Graveside services for Virginia Ann Regan, 100, of Glencoe will be Thursday, June 9, at 11:00 AM at Restlawn Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas. She passed Monday, June 6, 2011 at Mescalero.

She was born in 1910 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the second of five children born to Delia and James Grimmett. Her early years were spent following her parents throughour Texas as her father was a road builder. She attended a number of schools during those times. After graduating from high school, she attended and received a certificate from Draughns Business College in Abilene, Texas.

Virginia married John James Regan in 1937, she was preceded in death by Jim in 1998. As a young girl, Virginia worked in an ice cream parlor, where she met her future husband. After marriage she stayed home to raise their children, but they had quite a menageriea cow, a donkey, chickens, a pig and geese all of which she cared for.

In the late 1950s she went to work for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles as cashier. She continued working there until her retirement in 1974. During her marriage she was active in PTA, belonged to a Square Dance Club. She moved to Glencoe, New Mexico in 2003.

Survivors include her children, James E. Regan and his wife Mayme R. Regan, Kathleen A Cline and her husband Donald, and Barbara J. Briggs seven grandchildren, Michael Cline, Annette M. Caldwell, James Cline, Bryan Regan, Patrick Cline, Virginia Howard and William Briggs eleven great grandchildren, Sarah Cline, Christina Cline, Elizabeth Cline, Riley Regan, Ty Regan, Terry Burgin, Chase Burgin, Austin Cline, Selena Cline, Sophia Cline, and Zachary Howard.

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