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GREENVILLE - Funeral services for Margaret Kirk Groome Virden, 91, of New Orleans, La., and formerly of Greenville will be at noon Friday at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville. She died peacefully March 24, 2008, at her home at Lambeth House in New Orleans. Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery. Boone-Wells Funeral Home, Greenville, has charge of arrangements.
She was born on Waxhaw Plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., on April 22, 1916, the daughter of Margaret Wortham and John Shattuck Kirk. She was raised in Greenville, attended Sweet Briar College, Ole Miss and graduated from Newcomb College.
She married David Rice Groome and moved to Mexico City in 1938. Upon his death in an automobile accident in 1960, she returned to Greenville. In 1970 she married Joseph Lutz Virden of Greenville. He died in 1973. She moved to New Orleans in 2000.
Aside from being a devoted mother and wife, she was active in the community both in Mexico City and Greenville. While in Mexico, she was one of the founders of The School for the Blind and taught English as a second language in various schools. She was vice president of the Junior League of Mexico City and was on the altar guild of Christ Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at the American British Cowdry Hospital. In Greenville, she was on the altar guild and participated in the bazaar at St. James' Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at both The King's Daughters Hospital and Delta Medical Center. She was a member of the Junior Auxiliary and the Greenville Garden Club.
Mrs. Virden was predeceased by a younger sister, Sally Kirk Baskin, and two younger brothers, John Wortham Kirk and Eben Wortham Kirk.
She is survived by her children, David Kirk Groome, John William Groome and Margaret Montgomery Groome, and by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
There will be a visitation at the church Friday from 11 a.m. to noon.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made in her name to St. James' Episcopal Church, Greenville, or Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans.
GREENVILLE - Funeral services for Margaret Kirk Groome Virden, 91, of New Orleans, La., and formerly of Greenville will be at noon Friday at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville. She died peacefully March 24, 2008, at her home at Lambeth House in New Orleans. Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery. Boone-Wells Funeral Home, Greenville, has charge of arrangements.
She was born on Waxhaw Plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., on April 22, 1916, the daughter of Margaret Wortham and John Shattuck Kirk. She was raised in Greenville, attended Sweet Briar College, Ole Miss and graduated from Newcomb College.
She married David Rice Groome and moved to Mexico City in 1938. Upon his death in an automobile accident in 1960, she returned to Greenville. In 1970 she married Joseph Lutz Virden of Greenville. He died in 1973. She moved to New Orleans in 2000.
Aside from being a devoted mother and wife, she was active in the community both in Mexico City and Greenville. While in Mexico, she was one of the founders of The School for the Blind and taught English as a second language in various schools. She was vice president of the Junior League of Mexico City and was on the altar guild of Christ Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at the American British Cowdry Hospital. In Greenville, she was on the altar guild and participated in the bazaar at St. James' Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at both The King's Daughters Hospital and Delta Medical Center. She was a member of the Junior Auxiliary and the Greenville Garden Club.
Mrs. Virden was predeceased by a younger sister, Sally Kirk Baskin, and two younger brothers, John Wortham Kirk and Eben Wortham Kirk.
She is survived by her children, David Kirk Groome, John William Groome and Margaret Montgomery Groome, and by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
There will be a visitation at the church Friday from 11 a.m. to noon.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made in her name to St. James' Episcopal Church, Greenville, or Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans.
OBITUARY - DELTA DEMOCRAT-TIMES
GREENVILLE - Funeral services for Margaret Kirk Groome Virden, 91, of New Orleans, La., and formerly of Greenville will be at noon Friday at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville. She died peacefully March 24, 2008, at her home at Lambeth House in New Orleans. Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery. Boone-Wells Funeral Home, Greenville, has charge of arrangements.
She was born on Waxhaw Plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., on April 22, 1916, the daughter of Margaret Wortham and John Shattuck Kirk. She was raised in Greenville, attended Sweet Briar College, Ole Miss and graduated from Newcomb College.
She married David Rice Groome and moved to Mexico City in 1938. Upon his death in an automobile accident in 1960, she returned to Greenville. In 1970 she married Joseph Lutz Virden of Greenville. He died in 1973. She moved to New Orleans in 2000.
Aside from being a devoted mother and wife, she was active in the community both in Mexico City and Greenville. While in Mexico, she was one of the founders of The School for the Blind and taught English as a second language in various schools. She was vice president of the Junior League of Mexico City and was on the altar guild of Christ Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at the American British Cowdry Hospital. In Greenville, she was on the altar guild and participated in the bazaar at St. James' Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at both The King's Daughters Hospital and Delta Medical Center. She was a member of the Junior Auxiliary and the Greenville Garden Club.
Mrs. Virden was predeceased by a younger sister, Sally Kirk Baskin, and two younger brothers, John Wortham Kirk and Eben Wortham Kirk.
She is survived by her children, David Kirk Groome, John William Groome and Margaret Montgomery Groome, and by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
There will be a visitation at the church Friday from 11 a.m. to noon.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made in her name to St. James' Episcopal Church, Greenville, or Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans.
GREENVILLE - Funeral services for Margaret Kirk Groome Virden, 91, of New Orleans, La., and formerly of Greenville will be at noon Friday at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville. She died peacefully March 24, 2008, at her home at Lambeth House in New Orleans. Burial will be in Greenville Cemetery. Boone-Wells Funeral Home, Greenville, has charge of arrangements.
She was born on Waxhaw Plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., on April 22, 1916, the daughter of Margaret Wortham and John Shattuck Kirk. She was raised in Greenville, attended Sweet Briar College, Ole Miss and graduated from Newcomb College.
She married David Rice Groome and moved to Mexico City in 1938. Upon his death in an automobile accident in 1960, she returned to Greenville. In 1970 she married Joseph Lutz Virden of Greenville. He died in 1973. She moved to New Orleans in 2000.
Aside from being a devoted mother and wife, she was active in the community both in Mexico City and Greenville. While in Mexico, she was one of the founders of The School for the Blind and taught English as a second language in various schools. She was vice president of the Junior League of Mexico City and was on the altar guild of Christ Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at the American British Cowdry Hospital. In Greenville, she was on the altar guild and participated in the bazaar at St. James' Episcopal Church and was a volunteer at both The King's Daughters Hospital and Delta Medical Center. She was a member of the Junior Auxiliary and the Greenville Garden Club.
Mrs. Virden was predeceased by a younger sister, Sally Kirk Baskin, and two younger brothers, John Wortham Kirk and Eben Wortham Kirk.
She is survived by her children, David Kirk Groome, John William Groome and Margaret Montgomery Groome, and by six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
There will be a visitation at the church Friday from 11 a.m. to noon.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions be made in her name to St. James' Episcopal Church, Greenville, or Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans.
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