Virginia Norton Beach

Words alone cannot ease the pain and loss that your family is experiencing right now. "May seeking comfort from God provide strength during this difficult time." Heartfelt condolences - Isa 51:12

Tribute to Virginia Beach
August 30, 2016

Virginia was a special friend from the very beginning; within minutes of our first meeting, she and I discovered two key connections: the State of Maine and organ playing. It happened this way. Sometime late in 1997, after Annette and I had begun attending services at Hayes Barton United Methodist Church in Raleigh, NC, I was enjoying the organ postlude as we slowly filed out of the sanctuary. I remarked on the robust sound of a reed...

It has been a pleasure to know Virginia through her association with my daughter, Suzanne DeWitt who played in the bell choir with her at Hayes Barton Methodist Church. She had such a strong and kind soul I know she will be loved in heaven.

I had a wonderful time with her and the whole family when I was an exchange student in USA, she was marvelous with me.Mom Beach will be in my memories.

I'm so sorry for your loss. May the words of our dear heavenly Father bring you comfort and hope. (Psalm 9:9, 10)

I didn't know Ginny at the University of Maine in Orono while I was a student there, Class of 1953. Later, through my husband, Alan "Mike" Plaisted, '51,I met Ginny and "Woody." (Ginny was in my late brother's class. Emil Schott Jr. died in 1979.)

You couldn't meet a nicer person. So outgoing, friendly, always smiling, so full of life, with an optimistic view of her ongoing battle with cancer. Never once complaining.

I'd meet them at Casco Days, at the Casco Fair, and of course,...

So many wonderful memories. Ginny was a rare person who knew what "true" friendship really is.

Charlie & Diane