Background
Following her graduation from high school, Virginia moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, to study to be a nurse anesthetist like her mother.
Following her graduation from high school, Virginia moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, to study to be a nurse anesthetist like her mother.
Northwestern State University.
Virginia was the only child of James Eldridge Cassidy (1898–1957), the town iceman (later a grocer), and Edith (née Grisham) Cassidy (1901–1968), a nurse anesthetist. During her high school years, she worked as a waitress at a local restaurant. Upon completion of her training, she returned to Hope, Arkansas.
While William was on his way back to Hope, he was killed in an automobile accident, three months before Bill Clinton"s birth.
In 1950, Virginia married car salesman Roger Clinton, Senior, the father of the second of her two boys, Roger Junior. Clinton was an alcoholic and was physically and mentally abusive to Virginia and her boys.
He did not adopt Bill but Bill took his surname legally in 1962 at his own request. He told his mother that it would be easier if they all had the same last name.
Following Roger"s death from cancer in 1967, Virginia Clinton married hairdresser Jeff Dwire in 1969.
He subsequently died of complications of diabetes in 1974. Their marriage lasted until her death on January 6, 1994 from complications of breast cancer, at the age of 70, at her home in Hot Springs, Arkansas.