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- U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Virginia Hines
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1921
Birth Place: Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, United States of America
Death Date: 17 Feb 1984
Death Place: Georgia, United States of America
Cemetery: Lynnhurst Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Father: James E. Childress
Mother: Margaret E. Childress
Spouse: Lee Everett Hines
Children: James Randall Hines
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47295623/virginia-hines
Plot Section N Lot 125 Grave #7
Memorial ID 47295623
Mrs. Lee E. Hines Jr., a former Knoxville beauty and wife of an Eastern Airlines captain whose plane was hijacked to Cuba in 1972, died Friday at Emory Hospital in Atlanta after suffering a brain aneurysm.
The 62-year-old Mrs. Hines, the former Virginia Childress, had not been ill until the aneurysm occurred at mid-week, her family said. The Hineses had lived in Roswell, Ga., outside Atlanta, for many years.
She was a 1938 graduate of Knoxville High School and first runnerup to Miss Knoxville that year. She graduated from UT four years later. Her husband also is a Knoxville native and a UT graduate.
It was a harrowing experience for Hines when his plane was hijacked to Cuba. The hijackers, a father and son from Virginia wanted for murder and bank robbery, shot and killed an Eastern Airlines ticket agent and wounded a refueler before leaving the plane in Cuba.
Mrs. Hines leaves several Knoxville relatives, including a sister, Mrs. John Baugh, wife of the UT retired legal counsel; a brother, J.E. Childress; and an aunt, Mrs. Helen Hammond. Sam T. Thrower, former owner of WROL, is a brother-in-law.
In addition to her husband, she also leaves two daughters, Mrs. William Hall and Mrs. Ben Southard, and four sons, Michael L., Phillip, Randy, and Lee III, all of Atlanta.
Graveside services will be at Lynnhurst Cemetery here at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Patterson Funeral Home, Atlanta, is handling arrangements. The family can be reached here through the Throwers.
Knoxville News-Sentinel Feb 1984
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1921 - 1984 (62 years)
