BEST, VIRGINIA (BRUNNCKOW), formerly of Sarasota, FL and Warwick, died April 29 at Scalabrini Villa. She was the beloved wife of Henry A. Best.
Born in Providence, the daughter of Edward and Marion (Barrett) Brunnckow, she had lived in East Greenwich for 23 years and Sarasota for 12 years before returning to Rhode Island in 2001.
She was a graduate of Hope High School, Class of 1939; Colby Junior College (now Colby Sawyer College), class of 1941 and Katharine Gibbs School (1942). Before entering the US Navy in 1943, she was secretary to the art department at Brown University. Trained as a Link trainer operator, she instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying at naval air stations in Atlanta, Dallas and Jacksonville. Just before wars end, she was transferred to Quonset Naval Air Station and became a celestial Link trainer instructor. She was a petty officer first class when discharged in 1945. After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary to the departments of zoology and geology at Dartmouth College; as bookkeeper to several construction companies in Goshen, CT; as secretary to the principal at Leominster (MA) High School and as secretary to the American Red Cross manager in Providence. She was gifted in many crafts and excelled in tole painting and furniture decorating.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Barry H. Best and his wife Cathleen Baker of North Kingstown and Douglas E. Best and his wife Karen of Denver, CO; her brother E. Everett Brunnckow and his wife Pat of Westerly; five granddaughters and two grandsons.
Source: Providence Journal online May 1, 2007 @www.projo.com
Born in Providence, the daughter of Edward and Marion (Barrett) Brunnckow, she had lived in East Greenwich for 23 years and Sarasota for 12 years before returning to Rhode Island in 2001.
She was a graduate of Hope High School, Class of 1939; Colby Junior College (now Colby Sawyer College), class of 1941 and Katharine Gibbs School (1942). Before entering the US Navy in 1943, she was secretary to the art department at Brown University. Trained as a Link trainer operator, she instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying at naval air stations in Atlanta, Dallas and Jacksonville. Just before wars end, she was transferred to Quonset Naval Air Station and became a celestial Link trainer instructor. She was a petty officer first class when discharged in 1945. After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary to the departments of zoology and geology at Dartmouth College; as bookkeeper to several construction companies in Goshen, CT; as secretary to the principal at Leominster (MA) High School and as secretary to the American Red Cross manager in Providence. She was gifted in many crafts and excelled in tole painting and furniture decorating.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Barry H. Best and his wife Cathleen Baker of North Kingstown and Douglas E. Best and his wife Karen of Denver, CO; her brother E. Everett Brunnckow and his wife Pat of Westerly; five granddaughters and two grandsons.
Source: Providence Journal online May 1, 2007 @www.projo.com
BEST, VIRGINIA (BRUNNCKOW), formerly of Sarasota, FL and Warwick, died April 29 at Scalabrini Villa. She was the beloved wife of Henry A. Best.
Born in Providence, the daughter of Edward and Marion (Barrett) Brunnckow, she had lived in East Greenwich for 23 years and Sarasota for 12 years before returning to Rhode Island in 2001.
She was a graduate of Hope High School, Class of 1939; Colby Junior College (now Colby Sawyer College), class of 1941 and Katharine Gibbs School (1942). Before entering the US Navy in 1943, she was secretary to the art department at Brown University. Trained as a Link trainer operator, she instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying at naval air stations in Atlanta, Dallas and Jacksonville. Just before wars end, she was transferred to Quonset Naval Air Station and became a celestial Link trainer instructor. She was a petty officer first class when discharged in 1945. After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary to the departments of zoology and geology at Dartmouth College; as bookkeeper to several construction companies in Goshen, CT; as secretary to the principal at Leominster (MA) High School and as secretary to the American Red Cross manager in Providence. She was gifted in many crafts and excelled in tole painting and furniture decorating.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Barry H. Best and his wife Cathleen Baker of North Kingstown and Douglas E. Best and his wife Karen of Denver, CO; her brother E. Everett Brunnckow and his wife Pat of Westerly; five granddaughters and two grandsons.
Source: Providence Journal online May 1, 2007 @www.projo.com
Born in Providence, the daughter of Edward and Marion (Barrett) Brunnckow, she had lived in East Greenwich for 23 years and Sarasota for 12 years before returning to Rhode Island in 2001.
She was a graduate of Hope High School, Class of 1939; Colby Junior College (now Colby Sawyer College), class of 1941 and Katharine Gibbs School (1942). Before entering the US Navy in 1943, she was secretary to the art department at Brown University. Trained as a Link trainer operator, she instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying at naval air stations in Atlanta, Dallas and Jacksonville. Just before wars end, she was transferred to Quonset Naval Air Station and became a celestial Link trainer instructor. She was a petty officer first class when discharged in 1945. After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary to the departments of zoology and geology at Dartmouth College; as bookkeeper to several construction companies in Goshen, CT; as secretary to the principal at Leominster (MA) High School and as secretary to the American Red Cross manager in Providence. She was gifted in many crafts and excelled in tole painting and furniture decorating.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Barry H. Best and his wife Cathleen Baker of North Kingstown and Douglas E. Best and his wife Karen of Denver, CO; her brother E. Everett Brunnckow and his wife Pat of Westerly; five granddaughters and two grandsons.
Source: Providence Journal online May 1, 2007 @www.projo.com
Bio by: Rick OBrien
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