1923
Virginia
2015
Virginia Higgins
August 2, 1923 — July 7, 2015
Funeral services for Virginia Higgins will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea. The Rev. Russell Scepaniak and Deacon Mike Ellis will officiate. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Bonnerup Funeral Service and again one hour prior to the service at church. Interment will be in St. Theodore Catholic Cemetery.
Virginia May (Hagen) Higgins was born August 2, 1923 in Albert Lea and died at the age of 91 on July 7, 2015. She was the daughter of Ole J. Hagen and Eliza (Hanson) Hagen. She died in time to join her beloved husband Bernie to celebrate their 76th wedding anniversary in Heaven.
Virginia was a lifelong resident of Albert Lea. She attended Ramsey School and Central High School through the ninth grade. She became a member of St. Theodore's Church when she married her childhood sweetheart on July 7, 1939.
For many years, she was an active member of CCW (Catholic Church Women), worked for Naeve Hospital Auxilary at the hospital lunch counter, and was also on the board and an active member of Meals on the Go. She served hot lunch at St. Theodore's school on Fridays. She worked as a housekeeper at St. Theodore's rectory for thirty years and was a second mom to the priests who lived there. She received the Bishop's Medal for her many years of meritorious work.
She loved her family and friends and loved baking (including Christmas cookies of many kinds and caramel and cinnamon rolls), cooking, flowers, birds, keeping her home beautiful and welcoming new people to the neighborhood. No matter what adversity she faced in life, when she was asked how she was, she would respond "just fine."
She is survived by daughters Patricia Stern of Rochester and Bonnie Arneson of Canton, Georgia, son Stephen (Lynn) Higgins of Loretto, daughters Cathy Legried of Albert Lea, Julie (Rex) Mhiripiri of Lakeville and Colleen Higgins of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and son Greg (Sara) Higgins of Owatonna, 29 grandchildren, 52 great grandchildren, 12 great great grandchildren, and sister-in-law Maxine Higgins of Austin, Minnesota.
Besides her husband Bernard, who preceded her in death only one month ago, she was precededed in death by 12 sisters and brothers, daughters, Debbie Higgins and Diana Ningen, sons-in-law Vern Stern, Gary Arneson, Roger Ningen, and Gary Legried, granddaughter Beth Stern, grandson-in-law Bryan Kahl and great grandson Jason Rademacher.
Virginia May (Hagen) Higgins was born August 2, 1923 in Albert Lea and died at the age of 91 on July 7, 2015. She was the daughter of Ole J. Hagen and Eliza (Hanson) Hagen. She died in time to join her beloved husband Bernie to celebrate their 76th wedding anniversary in Heaven.
Virginia was a lifelong resident of Albert Lea. She attended Ramsey School and Central High School through the ninth grade. She became a member of St. Theodore's Church when she married her childhood sweetheart on July 7, 1939.
For many years, she was an active member of CCW (Catholic Church Women), worked for Naeve Hospital Auxilary at the hospital lunch counter, and was also on the board and an active member of Meals on the Go. She served hot lunch at St. Theodore's school on Fridays. She worked as a housekeeper at St. Theodore's rectory for thirty years and was a second mom to the priests who lived there. She received the Bishop's Medal for her many years of meritorious work.
She loved her family and friends and loved baking (including Christmas cookies of many kinds and caramel and cinnamon rolls), cooking, flowers, birds, keeping her home beautiful and welcoming new people to the neighborhood. No matter what adversity she faced in life, when she was asked how she was, she would respond "just fine."
She is survived by daughters Patricia Stern of Rochester and Bonnie Arneson of Canton, Georgia, son Stephen (Lynn) Higgins of Loretto, daughters Cathy Legried of Albert Lea, Julie (Rex) Mhiripiri of Lakeville and Colleen Higgins of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and son Greg (Sara) Higgins of Owatonna, 29 grandchildren, 52 great grandchildren, 12 great great grandchildren, and sister-in-law Maxine Higgins of Austin, Minnesota.
Besides her husband Bernard, who preceded her in death only one month ago, she was precededed in death by 12 sisters and brothers, daughters, Debbie Higgins and Diana Ningen, sons-in-law Vern Stern, Gary Arneson, Roger Ningen, and Gary Legried, granddaughter Beth Stern, grandson-in-law Bryan Kahl and great grandson Jason Rademacher.
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