ge ee liey
Virginia May Gee’ ’”?
July 21, 1925-Jan. 19, 1999

PETERSBURG — Virgini
May Gee, 73, of Petersburg die,
Tuesday at Greenbrook Manoj
Monroe.

Friends may call from 6 to!
p.m. Thursday and from 2 to:
and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Ochalek
Stark Funeral Home, Milan
where the rosary will be recitec
at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Services wil
be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the
funeral home, followed by a pro-
cession to Immaculate Concep.
tion Catholic Church at 11 a.m.
Burial will be in Pleasant View
Cemetery,

Born July 21, 1925, in Peters-
burg, she was the daughter of
Harry and Edna (Logan) Brown.
On June 1, 1946, she married
William K. Gee, who served as
mayor of Petersburg for 12 years
before he died on Dec. 16, 1977.

She was employed as a librari-
an at the Petersburg Library
from 1972 to 1984, where she orga-
. hized Friends of the Library,

"Petersburg branch, and actively

pursued a new library building,
which was established in 1979.

She served as secretary of the
Library Board from 1979 to 1984
and organized the Ladies Auxil-

_iary of Summerfield Post 6509,

Veterans of Foreign Wars. She
was a member of the Petersburg
Ladies Civic League, Summer-
field PTO, Summerfield Athletic
Boosters and secretary of the
Petersburg Ladies Bowling
League. She also wrote weekly
columns for the Petersburg Sun,
the centennial history for Deer-
field’s St. Alphonsus Church in
1964 and the history of Peters-
burg for the centennial publica-
tion in 1969. She was a 1943 grad-
uate of Petersburg High School
before attending Cleary Business
College.

Surviving are three sons,
William II, Joseph of Greenville,
S.C., and Kenneth of Carleton;
three daughters, Rita Selix of
Tallahassee, Fla., Kathryn Val-
lade of Monroe and Mary Gee of
LaSalle; three sisters, Betty Iott
of Brooklyn, Ruth Brennan of
Nevada, Calif., and Mrs. George
(June) Moorman of Ann Arbor;
22 grandchildren, and six great-
grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she
was preceded in death by two
brothers, Robert and Walter, and
an infant sister.