THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 20, 1994 TAG: 9407200344
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CAPE MAY, N.J. LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Irene Minnix, a longtime resident of Cape May and Atlantic counties, died July 8, 1994, after an extended illness. She was 91 years old.
Jane Irene Leverett was raised in Piedmont, S.C. She trained to be a nurse at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C., until she married Bruce M. Minnix of Roanoke, Va., in 1922. In the early 1930s she and her family moved to southern New Jersey.
Mrs. Minnix lived for many years on Loraine Avenue in Pleasantville, N.J., and was a member of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She belonged to the Keystone Chapter (NU)69 of the Order of the Eastern Star. After moving to the City of Cape May in the late 1960s, she became one of the original members of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Mrs. Minnix is survived by two sons, Bruce of Cape May and James of Hilton Head, S.C.; two grandsons, Dean of New Jersey and Mark of South Carolina; one granddaughter, Tracy of New Hampshire; five great-grandchildren; and six stepgrandchildren.
Services were private, and in accordance with her wishes, Mrs. Minnix's body was donated to the Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. Memorials may be sent to the charity of the donor's choice.
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