VIRGINIA TWITTY

A memorial service for Virginia Emily Twitty of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. James Sanderson will officiate, with burial in Sikeston City Cemetery.

Friends may call Thursday at the chapel from 12:30 p.m. until service time.

Twitty, 87, died Friday, July 24, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center.

She was born March 20, 1911, in Sikeston, daughter of James Dwight and Goldie Alexandria McCord Twitty.

Twitty received a bachelor of science degree in home economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1941. She did graduate work at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and received a master's degree in clothing and textiles from Kansas State University in Manhattan in 1952.

She worked six years at the University of Missouri Extension Service in Pemiscot County. Twitty has head of the home economics department for the state of Arizona from 1946-56.

Twitty then worked for the home economics extension divisions in the states of Nevada and Wyoming, returning to Missouri in 1966. She was a home economics specialist in Dunklin and New Madrid Counties until retiring in 1973 and moving to Cape Girardeau.

She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church.

Survivors include two brothers, John Twitty of Rolla, Dick Twitty of Lilbourn; and a sister, Marietta Whitworth of Sikeston.

She was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.