Hanover, NH - Virginia Walton Christy died in her sleep at Kendal at Hanover on February 4th, 2024. Virginia was born on December 3rd, 1922 at the Altoona Hospital in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She attended Highland Hall School in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania and the George School, a Quaker boarding school in Newtown Pennsylvania. She attended Swarthmore College for 3 years, and then left in 1944 to marry John M. Ogden. He died later that year in France, shortly after D-Day, and Virginia gave birth to their daughter, Dulany Ogden Bennett, now 79, in December. Virginia remarried in 1947 to James Hill Christy. They had two children, Joseph Hill Christy, now deceased, and Katherine Stockton Christy, now 67, residing in Portland, Oregon. Virginia and James moved to South Woodstock, Vermont in 1968. Virginia served as the head librarian at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock Vermont. After retirement, she volunteered at the visitors' booth on the Woodstock Green, and at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center surgical waiting room. SHE

Born a Quaker, Virginia became an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Church North Chapel in Woodstock, where she was very active every August in the church fair, as well as several committees. She spent many happy hours playing duplicate bridge.

Virginia is survived by two daughters, one grandson, Thomas Bennett, and two great-granddaughters, Bennett, age 7 and Evie, age 4.