Virginia "Ginny" Krueger

Virginia Krueger "Ginny" (nee Cochrane), 82, of New City, N.Y., passed away Monday, Aug. 8, after a long illness. A funeral service will be held Friday, Aug. 12, at 10 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Ridge, N.J. Interment will be at Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, N.J. Visiting hours are Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Caggiano Memorial, 62 Grove St., Montclair, N.J. Virginia was born in Orange, N.J., and raised in Bloomfield, N.J. She was a graduate of Susquehanna University, and taught high school French in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. She then married Carl Ely Webb in 1953, and moved to New City, N.Y., where she taught fourth grade for 26 years before retiring in 1991. She loved teaching and instilled in many of her students her appreciation of American history and literature. Virginia is survived by her children, Virginia Pasquarelli and her husband, Joseph, of Roswell, Ga., Cynthia Webb of Canton, Conn., and Gregory Webb of New City, N.Y., and by her granddaughters, Nicola Pasquarelli, Alexa (Cameron) Dean, and Emma and Jessie Webb. She was predeceased by her first husband, Carl Ely Webb, in 1962 and her second husband, James E. Krueger, in 2008; her sister, Ruth Surplus, and her brother, Kenneth Cochrane. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to United Hospice of Rockland, N.Y.