Virginia B. Moody
SACO – Virginia Briggs Moody handed peacefully in her residence on April 7, 2023. She was predeceased by her husband Robert W. Moody in 1982, her sisters Sharon Merrill, Diane Lee, and brother Robert Briggs.
Virginia was born on April 25, 1931, to Clyde and Carolyne Briggs in Freedom Maine. The oldest of six kids, she served because the household position mannequin. Her sister Cheryl stated, “If Ginny may do it, so may we.”
Ginny was an distinctive scholar and performed basketball at school. Upon graduating from excessive College, she enrolled within the Maine Basic Hospital Nursing program the place she met her lifelong good friend Jan Clark and whereas a scholar there met the love of her life Robert Moody. She labored as a nurse in Portland till she and Robert moved to Saco following Arlene Moody’s loss of life to maintain Robert’s father Charles.
In 1959 that they had Robert W. Moody Jr. then in 1962, Charles B. Moody. When Robert and Charles have been center faculty aged Ginny attended the College of Southern Maine and have become an Grownup Training trainer, educating topics resembling residence finance, first assist, and English.
Ginny and Robert, alongside along with her sister Barbra and her husband Don Higgins rebuilt a camp on Unity Pond which grew to become a summer season assembly place and was the supply of fond recollections for all the household.
She was lively in Trinity Episcopal Church, serving on the guild, and helping with church actions.
She was a cub scout den mom, realized to play the guitar, cross nation and downhill skied, and performed tennis and golf. She maintained a big and cherished circle of buddies via these actions and was recognized for her après ski dinners.
Ginny was lively locally serving as a Trustee for Laurel Hill Cemetery, as a board member of Dyer Library, Sweetser and as a Corporator at Saco and Biddeford Financial savings.
After Robert died in 1982, she continued the household enterprise of Moody’s Nursery began by her father-in-law Charles in 1935. She expanded the enterprise, including greenhouses, a bigger retail space and expanded landscaping providers.
Her most legendary exercise was planning the “Sister Journeys” Ginny and her sisters would take every summer season, selecting actions like white-water rafting, climbing mount Katahdin, and bicycling round Vinylhaven.
She cherished her residence, entrusted to her by her father-in-law Charles. She was an avid gardener sustaining show gardens and a big chopping backyard.
Ginny is survived by her two sons Robert and Charles, their wives Julie and Victoria, two granddaughters Rachel and Abigail, and nice granddaughter Alaina Morey.
She didn’t go light into that good evening and raged upon the dying of the sunshine.
Visiting hours are to be held Thursday April 13, 2023 from 4-6 p.m., on the Dennett, Craig & Pate Funeral House 365 Essential St, Saco.
A funeral service will probably be held 11 a.m. Friday April 14, 2023, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Cleveland Avenue, Saco, with a reception to observe.
Personal household burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions could also be made in her reminiscence to the Dyer Library/Saco Museum 371 Essential St, Saco, Maine 04072
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