Virginia Jenull "Ginny" Bowers

Virginia "Ginny" Jenull Bowers, a lifelong Texan, businesswoman, mother and grandmother, passed away November 1, 2025, two weeks shy of her 90th Birthday.
She was born in San Antonio November 16, 1935, to Virginia and Frank Jenull. Her Dad's work moved them to several South Texas locales before the family of four – including younger brother Joe – settled in Dallas, where Ginny finished high school at Highland Park.
She earned a business degree at UT Austin in 1956, having made forever friends as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha, Orange Jackets, and Mortar Board. Her Mortar Board class of 23 women started an annual chain letter in the late 1950s, chronicling personal and career-related joys and challenges in the midst of the women's movement. Their life stories were intertwined for over six decades via mimeograph, word processor, and email.
Ginny married college beau Allen Heard and started a family in Austin before returning to Dallas and joining her dad at the "Telephone Company" (now AT&T) to begin her own 28-year career there.
She was a single mom of three when such roles were a rarity. Workdays began with orchestrated kid's chores – and literally, kid gloves. Working lunches meant a can of Metrecal and a high-heeled dash through a list of errands at Sanger Harris and other bustling downtown landmarks. Time slowed over dinner for four with a collective recounting of the day's events, save those evenings when the leggy blonde beauty with sky-high, home-frosted hair and polished nails went full-on glamourous for a date night with the fortunate gents who survived her kid-gauntlet.
These might have been her best years. She conquered personal and professional challenges with grit and grace gifted her children her greatest legacy of personal responsibility loved deeply and was well-loved in return.
Ginny retired from AT&T as a district-level exec in 1994. Volunteer activities were highlighted by three decades as a public member of the State Bar and Texas Supreme Court grievance committees, which gave rise to a post-Ma Bell career as a commercial dispute mediator. She also enjoyed many years as Treasurer and in other servant leadership roles at (Anglican REC) Church of the Holy Communion, while traveling extensively in North America, Europe, and the Far East.
If those earlier years were her best times, in these later years Ginny became her best self, giving and serving in the role of friend and steward.
In any era, her most treasured role was that of "Mom" to her children: Richard (Glenda), Laurie (Tom, who recently preceded Ginny to have a heavenly Scotch awaiting her arrival), and Brian (Jeanne).
In addition to Richard's gift of two adored Grandsons, Zach (Lauren) and Connor (Layne), Ginny leaves a loving – and lovingly reciprocated – relationship with five step grandchildren, 14 (and counting!) great grandchildren, and a host of cherished family and friends.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11 AM Saturday, December 13, at Church of the Holy Communion Cathedral, 17405 Muirfield Drive in Dallas. A reception will follow in the Cathedral's Lunt Hall.
At another time, immediate family will hold a private inurnment, and at her request, a butterfly release. Like many Dallasites, Ginny was enamored with the majestic presence and perseverance of Nick and Nora, beloved bald eagles who've overcome many trials to nest and raise eaglets at White Rock Lake. The butterfly release will appropriately symbolize that our eagle has "landed" in His loving hands, and her now-gentled spirit will imbue each of us with the tenderness and tenacity of a butterfly.
If you wish, flowers may be directed to the Church. Alternatively, the family would be honored by contributions to Holy Communion's Endowment Fund:
https://www.holycommuniondallas.org/give. Please select "Memorial Funds" for your gift, and the Church will ensure that donations in Ginny's memory are added to the Endowment Fund she and others worked to establish for the future needs of her Parish.