History: Mildred Delores Jeter & Richard Perry Lovings, Interracial Married Couple Banned, 1969, Virginia, United States

Mildred Loving died of pneumonia on May 2, 2008, in Milford, Virginia, at age 68. Her daughter, Peggy Fortune, said, “I want (people) to remember her as being strong and brave, yet humble—and believ in love.” The final sentence in Mildred Loving's obituary in the New York Times notes of her statement to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia: “A modest homemaker, Loving never thought she had done anything extraordinary. 'It wasn't my doing,' Loving told the Associated Press in a 2007 interview. 'It was God's work.'"
Legacy
• Mr. & Mrs. Loving (1996), film starring Lela Rochon, Timothy Hutton and Ruby Dee, written and directed by Richard Friedenberg. According to Loving, “Not much of it was very true. The only part of it right was I had three children.”