Mildred J Curtis

Mildred Jeffries Curtis, 97, of San Antonio, TX passed away on July 30, 2019. Middie was born in Culpeper, VA on March 16, 1922 to William Lewis Jeffries, Jr. and Emma Jane Glascock Jeffries. She was a very skilled basketball player in high school in Norfolk, Virginia. She met and married the love of her life, Henry “Hank” Corbin Curtis, on November 20, 1941.

About a year and a half later she gave birth to their only daughter, Emma Dean Curtis, in 1943. Middie and Dean had to hold things down on their own for a few years while Hank was in the US Army in Alaska during World War II. After the war, they spent a brief time in Carmel, California, followed by a return to Virginia and the opening of their business, Self-Service Grocery in The Plains. When the grocery business had run its course, they moved to Warrenton, Virginia where Middie began her career in banking. They would then move back to her home town of Culpeper where she took a job as a loan officer at the Culpeper National Bank. When Hank got the opportunity to help run a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, they moved there where Middie continued to work in banking and they lived happily for many years.

After losing Hank to cancer in 1978, Middie moved to Texas to be closer to their daughter and her family. Always the worker, she took a job at the Hill Country News in Cedar Park as a typesetter, and made an unsuccessful run for Cedar Park City Council Place 1. Middie moved again to Austin in the late 1980s to be close to family and would eventually work at Westoak Woods Baptist Church. Her final years were spent in San Antonio, Texas, where she was near her daughter Dean and some of her family.

Middie’s greatest passion was for her grandchildren, and she made every effort to be close to them and be an active part of their lives. She made it a priority to attend every play, sporting event, or awards ceremony that she could for her grandsons, even when their parents could not. If they were sick, there was always a place at her house when they needed to stay home from school. She would spoil them not only with toys or treats, but with her unconditional love.

One of her other passions, which her family particularly enjoyed, was cooking. She loved to create delicious meals and loved even more watching people enjoy them. Middie was an avid gardener throughout her life, and a tremendous lover of animals, particularly dogs. She also had a wonderful talent for crochet, with many of her creations still heavily used in the homes of her daughter and grandchildren. When she became a great-grandmother, she would delight in their visits and shower them with the same love she gave to their fathers when they were little.

She is survived by her daughter Emma Dean Curtis of San Antonio, TX. She is also survived by her grandchildren George Martin and wife Leigh Ann of Frisco, TX, Mathew Martin and wife Amali of San Antonio, TX, and her great-grandchildren Olivia Martin, Sophia Martin, Emma Martin, and Charlotte Martin.

She is preceded in death by her beloved husband Hank, her parents William Lewis Jeffries, Jr. and Emma Jane Glascock Jeffries, her brother William Lewis Jeffries, III, and her sister Elizabeth May Jeffries.