Lois Ann (Drury) Jennings (1946 - 1982)

Born 4 Mar 1946 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama

Ancestors

Wife of Willard Joseph Jennings — married 4 Oct 1969 in Arlington County, Virginia

Died 25 Jan 1982 at age 35 in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil

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Biography

Lois was the daughter Walter C. Drury, Jr. and Carolyn V. Caldwell. On 4 October 1969 she married Willard J. Jennings. He died on 11 October 1969. They had no children. Lois died in 1982. She was buried in National Cemetery, Falls Church, Virginia.

Engagement Announcement

The Sunday Star

13 April 1969

Drury-Jennings

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Drury of Arlington announce the engagement of their daughter Lois Ann to Willard J. Jennings, son of Mrs. John Hayes of Woodbridge, Va., and the late Mr. Jennings. An Oct. 4 wedding is planned.^[1]

Death

Death:

Date: 25 Jan 1982

Place: near Campina Grande, Praiba, Brazil

Obituary

The Washington Post

27 June 1982, page B6

Lois A. Jennings, 36, a Southern Baptist Missionary in Brazil and a former resident of the Washington area, was killed June 25 in a traffic accident near Campina Grande, Brazil.

A spokesman for the Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, Va., said Mrs. Jennings and two other persons were riding in a car that struck the back of a truck.

Mrs. Jennings, who was born in Birmingham, Ala., grew up in the Washington area. She graduated from Yorktown High School in Arlington, attended Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va., and graduated from Old Dominion University. She was a clerk-typist at the Joint Armed Forces Housing Office at Fort Myer in 1971 and 1972 and a clerk-typist at the Veterans Administration in 1972.

In 1973, after attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., she went to Brazil as a missionary. She was director of a goodwill center in Natal, Brazil, at the time of her death.

Her husband, Willard J. Jennings, died in 1969. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Drury of Ormond Beach, Fla., and a brother, Walter C. III of Lauderhill, Fla.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Sunday Star, Washington, D. C.; 13 April 1969, Section D.
2. ↑ The Washington Post, Washington, D. C.; 27 June 1982, page B6.

• Interview with Carolyn Caldwell Drury, by Barbara D. Kern, 1991
• Obituary - Lois A. Jennings, 36, The Washington Post, Washington, District of Columbia, 27 June 1982, page B6