Virginia Nye was born in New York City but grew up in Kansas City, MO. In the 1930s, after contracting tuberculosis, she moved to Albuquerque. It was during this time that she worked for the Federal Art Project, as a supervisor for Bernalillo County and as a copyist on the Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design. Nye also appeared in many Albuquerque Little Theatre Company productions (the Little Theater was a project of the Federal Art Project). There, she met actor Clifford “Tip” Dinkle, whom she married in 1937.
