Mary Jo Putnam

Mary Jo Putnam

Mary Jo Putnam, 69, of Palmyra, Virginia, passed away Sunday, January 11, 2009, at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

She was born in Alliance, Nebraska, on September 10, 1939, the daughter of the late James L. and Agnes Murphy.

She graduated from the University of Wyoming achieving a degree in medical technology.

She worked at Signa Health Lab of Arizona and to the present at the University of Virginia Medicine Lab. She was a member of the Phoenix 99's Women's Pilot Association. She enjoyed league bowling, participating as the Player Rep in the Miss Softball of America Association, and countless other hobbies.

She was preceded by her parents and an infant brother.

She is survived by her husband Jim; daughters, Erin and Page and her husband, Victor Somers; sons, Eric and Mike; three granddaughters, Ashley, Megan and Ryan; two grandsons, Eric James Jr. and Joseph; three brothers, Patrick and his wife, Susan Murphy, Charles and his wife, Sue Murphy, and Gary and his wife, Deborah Murphy; and, her sister-in-law, Rosemary and her husband, Thomas Fitzgerald.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday, January 15, 2009, at Teague Funeral Home in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Friday, January 16, 2009, at St. Thomas Aquinas in Charlottesville, Virginia, with Father Joseph Scordo, O.P. officiating. Interment will follow at Monticello Memory Gardens of Charlottesville, Virginia.

The family would like to extend a special "Thank You" to the members of the Lake Monticello Rescue Squad, both teams in the University of Virginia Emergency Room and MICU.

Friends may sign the guest register at teaguefuneralhome.com


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.