Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baldwin, Germaine Derovet  October 14, 2009
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 Roanoke Times October 15, 2009
Germaine Derovet Baldwin, of Blacksburg, Va., died on Wednesday, October 14, 
2009, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Born in 1923 in Mayenne, France to the 
late Alfred Derovet and Germaine Bertrand Derovet, she grew up in Le Mans, 
France. She was preceded in death by her husband, John D. Couper Baldwin, whom 
she met after D-Day in Rennes, France, where she was working as a trilingual 
secretary. He was an officer with the United States Army. Also preceding her in 
death was her son, John. Surviving are a daughter, Monique Baldwin Gregory, and 
son-in-law, Edward Ray Gregory, of Richmond, Va.; daughter-in-law, Barbara, of 
Denham Springs, La.; one grandson, Vance, of Panama City Beach, Fla.; sister-in-
law, Marajorie Baldwin Roughton, of Norfolk, Va.; special friends, Libby 
Calveria, Susan Keith, B.J. Harris, Margie Poole, and Jim Nichols; and a very 
special friend, the late Johnnie Nichols. After World War II, Germaine 
volunteered in U.S. Army hospitals, working as a nurse's aide. When her husband 
was reassigned back to the United States, Germaine made her first trip to the 
U.S., straight to Norfolk, Va., where her husband's extended family lived. When 
her husband retired from the Army, the family moved to Blacksburg, where he 
worked with the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets and she became an active member 
of Christ Episcopal Church, the Southside Garden Club, and the Virginia Tech 
Faculty Wives Club. She enjoyed volunteer work with the Blood Mobile and the VA 
Hospital in Salem, Va. Germaine taught French at Radford University for a brief 
period, and occasionally gave private French lessons at home. Over 50 years of 
tending to the yard and beautiful garden surrounding her Blacksburg home 
brought her immense pleasure as it did to her neighbors and all who visited her 
at her home where she loved to entertain. Special thanks to the doctors, 
nurses, and staff at Montgomery Regional Hospital and the Kroontje Health Care 
Center in Blacksburg. A graveside service will be held 2 p.m. on Friday, 
October 16, 2009, at the Baldwin family plot in Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk, 
Va. Condolences can be sent to Monique Gregory at 8998 Midway Road, Richmond, 
Va. 23229. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg, Va.





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