VIRGINIA MAY ESTES BIBEE

Virginia (Gin) May Estes Bibee (aka Mama, Nannie, Queen Mother), 94, died peacefully Mar. 22 at the home of her daughter in Black Mountain, NC. Virginia Bibee was born Aug. 15, 1927 in Jackson, MS to Ambrose Foster Estes, Sr. and May Worthington Spencer Estes who predeceased her. Her family evacuated from their home in Glenn Allan, MS to Jackson for Virginia’s birth to escape the Mississippi River flood in 1927. Virginia’s father died when she was young and her mother later married Harry Erie Koch who also predeceased her. Virginia grew up in Laurel, MS where she graduated from high school. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State College for Women (now MUW) in Columbus, MS in 1950.