Sammye Driggers Irwin

Funeral: 9:30am Wednesday September 15 at Moore Funeral Chapel. Burial to follow at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. Visitation will be held Tuesday evening from 6-8p at the funeral home.

Sammye was born August 14, 1922 in Bailey, TX, not far from Bonham to Art and Mary Maxwell Driggers.

She grew up and graduated high school in Bailey and later attended nursing school in Sherman.

Like so many others, her life was uprooted by World War II. However, in the process she captured herself a US Marine named Fred. He was from Denison and they married in 1942, and remained married until 2003 when Fred found his eternal reward.

Sammye spent the remainder of the war in San Diego, CA applying her nursing skills to oral restoration. She remained a Marine wife until 1960.

With "their" military career behind then, they wound their way back to Texas eventually settling in Arlington.

Sammye donned her medical hat again as the Dean of Students at the College of Medical and Dental Assistants in Dallas. She eventually retired from the Mid-Cities Clinic in Grand Prairie.

She was a long time member of the Society of the American Association of Medical Personnel. Always a Marine at heart, of course, but always a Texan, and always a Cowboys fan - no matter what!

Sammye loved arts and crafts, and anything she could do with her hands.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred and her parents.

Survived by two sons: Chuck and Walter Irwin; five grandchildren; brother, Jim; and a huge circle of extended family and friends.