Virginia Ploch Morgan
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7B - March 22, 2012
Virginia Ploch Morgan, 90, Grand Junction, died March 13,
2012, at home.
Services will be at 11 a.m. March 29 at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.
Ms. Morgan was a homemaker.
Memorial contributions to Shriners Hospital for Children or
Western Colorado Shrine Club.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D - March 25, 2012
Virginia Ploch Morgan was born
May 22, 1921, in Owosso, Michigan
to Harry C. and Florence G.
Ploch. Her family moved to Lansing,
Michigan when Virginia
was 12, and she graduated from
Lansing Central High School in
January 1939, and worked for
M i c h i g a n S t a t e P o l i c e a n d
Chauffeur's Division at the State
Capitol.
In 1942, she moved to Los Angeles, California. On December 5,
1946, she married Robert L. Morgan, a former classmate, who was
in the U. S. Navy Submarine Service. The wedding was held in the
Navy Chapel, in Seattle, Washington and the wedding dinner was
aboard the submarine USS Bugara where Bob was stationed. Their
first home was a quonset hut in Pearl City, Hawaii. Virginia worked
at Hawaiian Pine plant in Honolulu for a short time.
After 20 years, Bob retired and went to work for the Space program
which brought them to Grand Junction where they built their
home.
Virginia, known better as Ginger or Ginny was very active in fraternal
organizations. She was a past president of the Social Order of
the Beauceant, Past Worthy High Priestess of White Shrine of
Jerusalem, Past President of Zora Club #2, Daughter of the Nile and
a member of Arbutus Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Ginny was
also a Past President of Submarine Wives of World War II and took
an active part in the reunions of the submarine USS Lionfish. Her
favorite hobbies were working in the garden, sewing, knitting
sweaters and giving them to friends, making cookies and desserts
and giving them to friends, and she loved playing bridge. She enjoyed
traveling, and was known for driving across country alone to
attend reunions and visit family.
Her husband preceded her in death. They had no children.
In lieu of flowers please send donations to Shriners Hospital for
Children, Convalescent Endowment Fund, Intermountain Unit, Fairfax
Ave. At Virginia St., Salt Lake City, Utah, 84103 or Western
Colorado Shrine Club, P.O. Box 2501, Grand Junction, Colorado,
Endowment Convalescent Fund.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at
Callahan-Edfast Mortuary at 11:00 a.m.
