Dee Walraven

Virginia Dee Walraven our beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Dee Walraven, passed away on March 31, 2025, at the age of 82.

Dee was born April 29, 1942, in Austin, Texas, and grew up in Dallas, Texas, with a brief detour to El Toro Marine Corp Air Station in California during the Korean War. Dee married James Norman Walraven on August 12, 1960, and the couple moved to Fort Worth to begin their life together. Jim Walraven, a Continental Airlines Captain, passed away in 1997.

Dee devoted her life to her family, her love of music and teaching piano, and her church community at First Christian Church in Arlington. Dee served as a PTA President and Cub Scout Den Mother throughout the 1970s and was instrumental in the growth of the Arlington Music Teachers Association during her more than 50 years as a private piano teacher. Dee served as an educator, deacon, and elder at First Christian Church during her over 55 years of membership.

As an avid traveler and devoted grandmother, Dee loved taking her grandchildren on global adventures from Paris to Rome to Barcelona to Sydney.

Dee is survived by her sons, Steve, Larry, and Eric Walraven, her daughters in law, Kim, Sharon, and Angela Walraven, her grandchildren, Kathryn Thompson, Megan Doerpinghaus, Sarah Walraven, Andrew Walraven, James Walraven, Emily Evans, Amanda Heger, and Mathew Walraven, and her nine great grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held Friday, April 11, 2025, at Emerald Hills Funeral Home, 500 Kennedale Sublett Road, Kennedale, Texas 76060. Visitation – 1:00 pm; Service 2:30 pm.

In lieu of flowers, gifts may be sent in memory of Dee to the Arlington Music Teachers Association Scholarship Fund, 2516 Cherry Sage Drive, Arlington, Texas 76001.