Virginia Hunt

Virginia Lee Hunt passed away peacefully at her home January 14, 2015, after a brief battle with cancer. Ginny was born in Richmond November 21, 1931, to Aubrey Lee Hunt, Jr. and Virginia Womble Crenshaw Hunt. She was a 1949 graduate of St. Catherine’s School and 1953 graduate of Westhampton College (University of Richmond). Ginny’s interests varied widely. Because of her dad and mom, Ginny could shoot a rifle (she even taught riflry one summer) as well as she could sew. She loved boating from a very early age when she spent summers on the Potomac with her family. When she was about 6, she and her cousin, Alec, even painstakingly built their own little boat which, in front of all their friends and neighbors who were gathered for the launching, immediately sank into the Potomac River. During Ginny’s younger days in Richmond, she taught lower school boys at St. Christopher’s and played semi-professional field hockey on weekends, making life-long friends on teams throughout the Eastern U.S. and Europe. She loved teaching, boating, reading, and all aspects of life on the water, including the incredible wildlife and natural beauty all around her. Ginny’s greatest pleasure, however, was music. She especially loved choral music, classical music and opera and was a longtime supporter of the Metropolitan Opera.

God and Church were an integral part of Ginny’s life. When she retired to Urbanna, she transferred from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (Richmond) to Christ Church (Middlesex), where she taught adult Bible study and was very active in ECW and choir. For the last several years, she contributed time, talent and treasure to Grace Episcopal Church (Kilmarnock). Ginny was predeceased by her parents, Lee and Virginia Hunt, and her sister, Louie Brown Hunt Baker. She is survived by her dear friend, Barbara Fasig of Urbanna; her nieces, Virginia Baker McFerran (Jerry) of Santa Barbara, CA, and Lee Ann Baker Graves (Worth) of Fredericksburg, and her grandnephews and nieces, Colby, Issac, Virginia and Sarah Graves. A celebration of life and resurrection will be held Thursday, January 22 at 11:00 at Grace Episcopal Church, 303 S. Main Street, Kilmarnock, with a reception following. Burial will be at Christ Church (Middlesex) at a later date. Contributions in Ginny’s memory may be made to Grace Episcopal Church, PO Box 1059, Kilmarnock, VA 22482 or to Christ Church, PO Box 476, Saluda, VA 23149.