Virginia B. Bryant

Virginia B. Bryant, age 88, longtime Emmetsburg resident, died Sunday, January 22, 2012, at a hospital in Pender, Nebraska. Funeral services will be Thursday, January 26, 2012 at Bethany Lutheran Church at 1 P.M. in Emmetsburg, Iowa, with visitation 2 hours prior to the service at the church. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery in Emmetsburg. VIrginia was born in rural Emmetsburg on September 14, 1923, to Arthur Henry Thompson and Edith Lillie Hahn Thompson. She attended school and graduated from Emmetsburg High School where she was the school's first Homecoming Queen. She received Normal Training during High School and later taught 2 years at a country school. On February 26, 1943, she married George O. Bryant in Fairmont, Minnesota. To this union were born 2 daughters, Georgia and Barbara. George and VIrginia managed the Emmetsburg Airport for nearly 40 years. She also was an excellent seamstress and enjoyed crocheting and knitting. Since the early 1970's, they spent winter in Florida where they enjoyed playing golf until George's death in 1996. For over 50 years, George and Virginia and later only Virginia were part of a group of lifelong friends from the airport who dined together nearly every Sunday night until she moved in 2009 to live closer to family in Pender, Nebraska. She resided at an assisted Living in Pender until May of 2011 where she then moved to a long term care facility. She is survived by her 2 daughters, Georgia (Dennie) Munderloh of Pender, Nebraska and Barbara (Al) Ferrell of Topeka, Kansas. She is also survived by four grandchildren, Kristine (Scott) Levine of Greensboro, North Carolina, Stephen (Amy) Munderloh of Wakefield, Nebraska, Andrea (Stephen) Morgan of Kansas City, Missouri and Bradford Framke of Williston, North Dakota. She is also survived by 5 great grandchildren, Benjamin, Nathan, and Jackson Levine, Anthony and Lauren Munderloh. Virginia was preceded in death by her husband George, parents and brother William A. Thompson.