Virginia Elaine Wernsing, 95, of Carlinville, formerly of St. Louis, MO, died on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, at Heritage Health: Therapy and Senior Care in Carlinville.
Graveside services will be conducted Tuesday, Dec. 22, beginning at 11 a.m. at Harvel Cemetery. Guidelines set forth by the CDC will be followed, including social distancing and masks. Hough Funeral Home in Raymond is assisting the family.
Ms. Wernsing was born Sept. 9, 1925, in Rountree Township in Montgomery County, to Edward Wilhelm and Anna Marie (Theen) Wernsing.
She graduated from Nokomis Community High School in 1943.
For 40 years, Ms. Wernsing was employed as manager and accountant for the LN Siegel Company in St. Louis, MO. After the company sold, she joined the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis, MO, in a similar role. She later worked for Account Temps where one of her assignments was the US soybean board.
She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Harvel where she was baptized and confirmed. “Aunt Ginny,” as her nieces and nephews knew her, was very successful and traveled the world with her friends. She loved attending the Muny and many other theater productions at the Fox theatre in St. Louis.
Ms. Wernsing played an active part, holding many memberships to various organizations in around St. Louis, MO. She lived many years in Brentwood Forest, Brentwood, MO, and in 2014 after her retirement, she moved to Morse Farms in Carlinville to be near her family.
Her grandfather, Bernhardt Wilhelm Wernsing, immigrated in 1853 was his two brothers from Ost Friesland, west of Hamburg Germany to be farmers in America.
Ms. Wernsing is survived by her nieces, Kathleen Darden, Elizabeth Wernsing and Carrie Williams; nephews, Darrel Wernsing, Ed Wernsing, James V. Walch, Don Walch, Nelson Wernsing and David Franke; as well as five great-nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; six siblings, Burrell Wernsing, Lyle Wernsing, Howard Wernsing, Anna Walch, Josephine Franse and Ina Franke; and great-niece, Alexis Wernsing.
Memorials may be directed to Trinity Lutheran Church in Harvel.
Online condolences to the family may be left at www.houghfuneralhome.com.
