Paul Virginia Sayward

Virginia "Ginny" Sayward Paul of Charlottesville, died on June 24, 2017. She was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, Virginia, the daughter of the late Roland W. Sayward and Eleanor Hutchinson Sayward of East Longmeadow, Mass. With a lifelong passion for the arts, Virginia pursued those studies throughout her entire life even during her earlier 35 year business career. She was an active artist in Western Massachusetts, Princeton, N.J. and Charlottesville, Va. With her recognition as an artist, she became Art Consultant for the Bank of New England and its 19 branches, moving to the Princeton area she was employed by the Denby Design firm and as Graphic artist for the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association. She found expression in her art reflecting a love of the Maine Islands and wherever her world travels took her. She was on the Volunteer Board at the University of Virginia Art Museum, the Monticello Garden Club, the Virginia Watercolor Society, the Princeton Art Association, the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild and Pen Women of America. She attended the University of Mass., Parsons School of Design and was a recipient of the Ada Comstock Fellowship Grant from Smith College. Her husband, Raj Paul, predeceased her. She is survived by her daughter, Susan Dumond and Susan's husband, Michael of Orlando Florida; her son, Scott Troutman of Charlottesville, Virginia; her brother, Roland W. Sayward of East Hartford, Connecticut; her sister, Ruth Sayward of Vinalhaven, Maine; and Virginia's nieces and nephews of the Sayward and Paul lineage. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 8, 2017, at the First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park Street, Charlottesville. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Food Bank, 1207 Harris street #B, Charlottesville, Va.