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2023 SESSION

23107370D
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 470
Offered February 23, 2023
Celebrating the life of Virginia Lee Germino.
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Patron-- Hudson
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WHEREAS, Virginia Lee Germino, née Roseborough, an accomplished writer and editor, world traveler, and active and beloved member of the Charlottesville community, died on March 2, 2022; and

WHEREAS, after paying her way through Allied-occupied Germany in her teenage years selling cigarettes to soldiers, Virginia Germino studied at Duke University, Harvard University, and Wellesley College before making her home in Charlottesville and raising her family; and

WHEREAS, Virginia Germino was a composition instructor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business for many years and a contributor to and editor of the Bridge Builders Project publication Bridge Builders: 2001–2016 Charlottesville, VA; and

WHEREAS, Virginia Germino was a fierce advocate for justice and equality over the years, working closely with organizations such as Offender Aid and Restoration and the local Arc to assist populations in the community in need; and

WHEREAS, guided by her faith, Virginia Germino was most recently a member of St. Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville, where she sang enthusiastically in the choir; and

WHEREAS, preceded in death by her daughter Margaret, Virginia Germino will be fondly remembered and dearly missed by her children Helen, Ruskin, Laura, Renata, and Monica and their families and by numerous other family members and friends; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates hereby note with great sadness the loss of Virginia Lee Germino, a cherished member of the Charlottesville community whose generosity, passion, intellect, and humor brightened countless lives; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Virginia Lee Germino as an expression of the House of Delegates’ respect for her memory.