Word had been received of the death of Virginia Lee Tindall Mills. Mrs. Mills died Saturday in a local care center. Burial will be at a later date next to her husband at the Rock Island National Cemetery in Rock Island, Illinois. Local arrangements are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. Mrs. Mills was born in Mahaska County, Iowa on June 16, 1923 to William Leroy and Irma (Parks) Tindall. She lived in Woden, Iowa until she graduated as valedictorian of her high school class in 1941. She attended Grinnell College until 1943 at which time she joined the U.S. Navy. She met her husband Melvin M. Mills while stationed in San Diego, California. They were married on May 30, 1945 in San Diego California. He died in 1995. After her discharge from the Navy in 1945 she and her husband, a career Navy man, lived in many places and states. After his retirement in 1963 the family moved to Montezuma, Iowa and lived there until her husband's death in 1995. She then moved to Burkburnett, Texas to be closer to her son and then to Lawton where she had resided the past three years. During her 86 years she was not only a loving wife and mother, but also a member of the Easter Star and Nile, achieving the distinction of Nile Queen In Iowa in 1978. She was very active in Nile until her health started to fail the past few years. She is survived by her only child, Thomas L. Mills and his wife Mary, Lawton, two granddaughters, Christin Ann Mills Bunch, Shady Shores, Texas and Sarah Marie Mills, Lawton, her great grandson, Austin Thomas Bunch and her sister, Joann Sloan, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.