The daughter of the late Kjersti Vergusdol and Harald Berg, Agnes was born in New York City on Oct. 9, 1923. She majored in fashion design at Goucher College in Baltimore and served as one of the first US Navy WAVES during World War II. She married Henry A. McClung, a fellow Navy veteran, and supported him in his careers, first as a member of the West Virginia State Police in Charleston, West Virginia and then as an engineer with Western Electric Corporation in Winston-Salem, where they lived from 1958 until Henry died in 1995. She continued to live in Winston-Salem until she moved to Scotia Village in 2007.
Agnes was a homemaker and mother to her five children. She was an ardent advocate for animals through her extensive volunteer work at the Forsyth County Humane Society in Winston-Salem.
Agnes was predeceased by her parents and her twin sister, Ruth Norma Berg Williams.
Agnes will be buried beside her husband in Mountain View Park in Charleston, West Virginia.
Published in Lauringburg Exchange 11/14/2014
The daughter of the late Kjersti Vergusdol and Harald Berg, Agnes was born in New York City on Oct. 9, 1923. She majored in fashion design at Goucher College in Baltimore and served as one of the first US Navy WAVES during World War II. She married Henry A. McClung, a fellow Navy veteran, and supported him in his careers, first as a member of the West Virginia State Police in Charleston, West Virginia and then as an engineer with Western Electric Corporation in Winston-Salem, where they lived from 1958 until Henry died in 1995. She continued to live in Winston-Salem until she moved to Scotia Village in 2007.
Agnes was a homemaker and mother to her five children. She was an ardent advocate for animals through her extensive volunteer work at the Forsyth County Humane Society in Winston-Salem.
Agnes was predeceased by her parents and her twin sister, Ruth Norma Berg Williams.
Agnes will be buried beside her husband in Mountain View Park in Charleston, West Virginia.
Published in Lauringburg Exchange 11/14/2014
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