Virginia (Crockett) Maddox

OBITUARY

Virginia Maddox: Longtime elementary teacher

Services for Virginia Maddox , a teacher at Carrollton and Farmers Branch schools for 25 years, were Friday at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Carrollton.

Mrs. Maddox , 88, died Tuesday of natural causes at her home in Farmers Branch. Entombment was in the mausoleum at Restland Memorial Park.

Mrs. Maddox taught third- and fourth-graders at Valwood Elementary, which is now L.P. Montgomery, in Farmers Branch and Blanton Elementary and Woodlake Elementary, which is now June Rhoton Thompson, in Carrollton from 1959 to 1984.

Her warm, outgoing demeanor won the hearts of her students, many of whom remembered her years after finishing elementary school, her daughter said.

"It turned out that my mother's personality was perfect for teaching," said Ginny Wellborn of Farmers Branch. "She really shined in that capacity. ... The children just worshipped her."

Mrs. Maddox , born in Durant, Okla., attended Southeastern State Teachers College, now Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where she was Alpha Sigma Tau sorority president.

For more than a decade after graduation, Mrs. Maddox worked at schools in Oklahoma, Kansas and Sherman, Texas, before settling in Farmers Branch with her husband, Joe Maddox .

After retiring, Mrs. Maddox taught language-skills classes for three years at Brookhaven College, and she volunteered as an instructor in the English as a second language program at Farmers Branch Manske Library. She also led a Sunday school class at Covenant Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Maddox was a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution's North Dallas chapter, a past president of the Farmers Branch Woman's Club and vice president of the Friends of the Manske Library.

The city of Farmers Branch, citing her record as a teacher and her service to the community, named her Woman of the Year in 1994.

Mayor Bob Phelps, who met Mrs. Maddox in the mid-1980s, said she always could be seen smiling. It was her kind attitude that students remembered, he said.

"If you talk to any of the kids that had her, they all just dearly loved her," Mr. Phelps said.

Mrs. Maddox is survived by another daughter, Margie Maness of Carrollton; a son, Joe Maddox Jr. of Arlington; a sister, Mamie Babb of Poteau, Okla.; and two grandchildren.

The Dallas Morning News - Sunday, February 17, 2002
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

JOE D. MADDOX - 1913 - 1998
VIRGINIA C. MADDOX

Plot: Chapel Gardens Mausoleum - Psalms, N Hall 1

Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas