Virginia Hatcher

Vir­ginia Anne (Tin­dale) Hatcher, age 84, res­i­dent of Shelby, passed away peace­fully on Fri­day, Octo­ber 5, 2012 at MedCentral/Mansfield Hos­pi­tal sur­rounded by her fam­ily. She was born Jan­u­ary 8, 1928 in Shelby, the only child of the late Ralph and Helen (Stock) Tin­dale. A 1946 grad­u­ate of Shelby High School, she had worked at the Cit­i­zen Bank in Shelby, Ger­ald Lewis, CPA and the Shelby Sales­book retir­ing in 1991. On Jan­u­ary 8, 1955 she mar­ried naval offi­cer, George M. Hatcher. Together they were sta­tioned in Cal­i­for­nia, Vir­ginia, South Car­olina, Japan and Hawaii. She returned to Shelby in 1965 to raise their three children.

Ginny was a mem­ber of the First Lutheran Church, a life­time mem­ber of the Alpha Pi Sigma Soror­ity, a Girl Scout and den leader and vol­un­teered at MedCentral/Shelby Hos­pi­tal for 21 years. Always a pos­i­tive role model, Ginny con­sis­tently placed her children’s’ inter­est above her own. Even dur­ing the most stress­ful times, she always had a smile on her face. She was the ideal mother who under­stood the dif­fer­ence between dis­ci­pline and indi­vid­ual expres­sion. A proud grand­mother, Ginny was a sports enthu­si­ast and an avid OSU fan.

She is sur­vived by one son, Steven (Luellen) Hatcher of Jupiter, Florida, two daugh­ters, Holly Kay of Chicago, and Sharon (Robert, Jr.) Hick­son of Mt. Gilead; eight grand­chil­dren, Charles (Brit­tany) Hatcher, Rick (Bethlee)Hatcher, Han­nah (Josh) Haney, twins, Michael and Lisa Reamer and triplets, Maura, Robert III, and Eliz­a­beth Hick­son; six great grand­chil­dren, Char­lie, Mady and Jack­son Haney, Ali­cia Hatcher and twins, Aaron and Andrew Hatcher; and sister-in-law, Pauline Miller Fairchild of Hen­der­son, North Carolina.

In addi­tion to her par­ents, she was pre­ceded in death by her for­mer hus­band, Lt. Com­man­der George M. Hatcher and her feline com­pan­ion, Bo.

Funeral ser­vices will be held 11:00 a.m. Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 13, 2012 at the Bark­dull Funeral Home in Shelby. Rev­erend Rus­sel Yoak will offi­ci­ate with inter­ment in Union Ceme­tery, Sulpher Springs. Friends may call at the funeral home Fri­day from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and one hour prior to the ser­vices on Sat­ur­day. Memo­r­ial expres­sions may be made to the First Lutheran Church, 33 Broad­way St., Shelby, OH 44875; Amer­i­can Lung Asso­ci­a­tion, PO Box 415, San­dusky, OH 44871–0415 and the Shelby Hos­pi­tal Guild, 199 W. Main Street, Shelby, OH 44875.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Oct 8 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.