GLYNWORTH DUNN ENOCH

01/26/1920 - 02/10/2024

Glynworth Dunn Enoch, passed away on Saturday, the 10th of February 2024, in Houston, at the age of 104.

She was born on the 26th of January 1920, in Glenmora, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. She was the daughter of Henry Lee Dunn and Alma Jeanette Barton Dunn. She moved with her family to the Houston area when her father took a job on the North Shore Railway Company interurban line.

After graduating from Lee High School, she attended Lee Junior College, where she met the love of her life, Robert William “Bob” Enoch. They were married for 73 years, from the 2nd of August 1940, until his death in May of 2014.

After Bob completed his service in WWII, they enrolled in the University of Houston, from where she graduated with a BS in Education in 1950. Her first teaching assignment was at Helms Elementary in the Houston Heights, which she had attended as a child. She taught Kindergarten and First Grade for the HISD until 1985, taking off a few years to raise her family.

After retirement, she did volunteer work for many organizations, including Sheltering Arms, Meals on Wheels and the Telephone Reassurance Program. She enjoyed dancing for nursing home residents with the Texas Stars group and participated in the Blue Willow Garden Club.

She and Bob got to travel together to England, France, Italy, Spain, Nova Scotia and on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Glyn is survived by her sons, Glenn Enoch and his wife Tricia Dignam, James Enoch and his wife Sandy; her beloved grandson, Dylan Enoch; and her nephew, Tom Chaney. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob; her son, Bill Enoch; and her sister, Margaret Chaney.

A funeral service is to be conducted at half-past eleven o’clock in the morning on Friday, the 16th of February, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The interment will follow, via an escorted cortege, at Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston.

Please visit Mrs. Enoch’s online memorial tribute at GeoHLewis.com where fond memories and words of comfort and condolence may be shared electronically with her family.