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Birth
Virginia was born in Fairbury, Illinois on July 26,1919. -
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World War II
During World War II Virginia served in a variety of roles, actually. She had several different type civil service-type jobs. And then she went into the Red Cross as a Red Cross volunteer. And that was toward the end of World War II that she served there. -
College
Virginia went to the college of William and Mary. She then graduated from that college in 1940. she graduated before the war. Out of college she was doing anything she could find. She only worked in Palm beach for 6 months. -
Pearl Harbor
Virginia was working at Morrison Air Field in Palm Beach, which had been just an airport beforehand. It was open house for the first B-29 to be shown there. she was inside the B-29 looking all around and being told about its internal, when she heard the japanese sent bombs to pearl harbor. -
Death of her fiance
Virginia had a fiance named Langdon Long he was a first lieutenant he passed away in a plane crash flying to africa along with three other planes. she spent her next summer grieving then decided to join the red cross. -
Red Cross
Virginia decided to go into the red cross in 1945 -
Her brother
Virginia had a brother in the Pacific who had gone through college in three years. He captained a ship, called an LSM, It was a 326, down the Mississippi through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific. Her parents didn't know too much about where he was. All they knew was that he was on this little boat. They didn't know that he was involved in the fight at Okinawa. He later came home after picking up some wounded soldiers in the Philippines to bring back. He was three years younger than her. -
Aftermath
After the death of her fiance Virginia re- married to an old friend named, Scribner Allen. She new from a long time ago before her and her fiance met she fell in love with his family, and fell madly in love with him, they were married for 50 years before he passed. they had two children and they have three grandchildren. Virginia lives a mile away from her daughter and the other 2 are spread out. She said her experience in the red cross was that she grew up learned she could accomplish a lot.
