Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Chesson, Virginia Winborne Ramsey May 27, 2006
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Daily Press   May 30, 2006
Virginia Winborne Ramsey Chesson died at Riverside Hospital in Wilmington on May 
27, 2006.

She was born April 23, 1922, in Isle of Wight County, Va., to Walter Hyden and 
Ivey Elise Winborne Ramsey. Struck by polio at age three, she was taken for health 
reasons by her mother's sister and brother-in-law, Dr. Jesse Hill and Elizabeth 
Wells Winborne Crouch, to Helena, Mont., from 1929 to 1935, where she finished the 
seventh grade.

Returning east, she had her freshman year at Smithfield High School in Virginia, 
and spent the next three years in Beckley, Charleston and Lewisburg, W.Va., 
completing high school at Greenbriar Women's School.

She matriculated at the College of William and Mary in the fall of 1939 as a 
biology major, transferring for her senior year to Richmond Professional Institute 
from 1943 to 1944. She began work at the Medical College of Virginia even before 
her graduation, as a research assistant to Dr. Ernst Fischer, a professor of 
physical medicine, studying the muscles of rats and rabbits to help with the 
treatment of World War II wounded. She left MCV in 1947 to have her first son.

She married Wesley Earle Chesson on Oct. 25, 1946, in Richmond, Va. They lived in 
Henrico County, Va., Greensboro, N.C., Newport News, Va., and New Castle, Del. Her 
husband of 59 years survives her, as well as their two sons, Michael B. of 
Belmont, Mass., and Mark W. of Palmyra, N.J., and Newport News.

Virginia Chesson taught elementary pupils in the Newport News public schools for 
17 years, from 1961 to 1978. Since retirement, she and her husband resided in both 
Newport News and New Castle, enjoying fall trips to Montana.

Mrs. Chesson was a member of many organizations, including the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy, Museum of the Confederacy, United Daughters of 1812, Daughters of 
the American Revolution, National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the 
Pilgrims, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Virginia 
Historical Society, Delaware Historical Society, Isle of Wight County Historical 
Society, New Castle Historical Society, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Newport 
News, and Immanuel Church on the Green, New Castle.

In addition to her husband and sons, Virginia Chesson is survived by four 
grandchildren, Sarah Winborne, Jane Schomburg, Mark Allyn and Virginia Woodward.

There will be a funeral service at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 31, at Immanuel Church 
on Harmony Street in New Castle. The burial service at St. Mary's Cemetery, 
Norfolk, Va., will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Immanuel Church, 100 Harmony St., New 
Castle, DE 19720.

Arrangements by Gebhart Funeral Homes, gebhartfuneralhomes.com, (302) 328- 2312.

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