Mary Charline Mims

Mrs. Mims was born in Edmond, Oklahoma, June 3, 1921 to Dr. Charles Leo McGehee and Mary Wantland McGehee.

She was the Valedictorian of the 1937 class at Thomas Jefferson High School, a graduate cum laude of the University of Texas at Austin, class of 1941 and a graduate of Trinity University, class of 1962. She financed her graduate school education making and selling ceramic salt and pepper shakers shaped like the Alamo.

Mrs. Mims served on the faculty of San Antonio College for twenty-four and a half years where she taught microbiology and general biological sciences. Mary Charline loved to teach future nurses, teachers and doctors. She helped to promote equal pay for women professors, long before it became popular.

Mrs. Mims was a member of Chi-Omega Sorority, past president of the San Antonio Alumni of Phi-Beta-Kappa and a member of Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.

Some of her interests and hobbies included pottery, ceramics, wine making and flower arranging. In her retirement years she taught ceramics at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.

Preceded in death by her husband Dr. James L. Mims, Jr. in 1995.

Mrs. Mims is survived by three sons and their families: Dr. James L. Mims, III and his wife Martha; Charles L. Mims and wife Emily W., of San Antonio and Dr. Robert Lewis Mims of Arlington, TX.; five grandchildren, Julie Elizabeth Coombes, Lisa Marie Mims, Christopher J. Mims, Charles W. Billy Mims and 2nd Lt. Brian J. Mims United States Army.

For those who desire, memorial contributions may be made to: Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, or the American Parkinson's Association.