Virginia Trainor

Pawcatuck - Virginia (Melia) Trainor, 88, of Noyes Ave., Pawcatuck, died peacefully Sunday July 9, 2006 at the Westerly Hospital.

She was the beloved wife of the late Thomas H. Trainor.

Mrs. Trainor was born in Pawcatuck on May 8, 1918. She was the daughter of the late Anthony and Mary (Ballato) Melia. Virginia was an accounts payable specialist for the former C.B. Cottrell and Harris Graphics for over 25 years before retiring and she was a member of the company's quarter century club.

Mrs. Trainor was a communicant of St. Michael's the Archangel Church in Pawcatuck. She was a member of the Daughter of the Isabella St. John Francis Circle No. 798 and held several State offices as well as State Regent.

Virginia loved to travel with family and friends and took several trips to Italy and Ireland. She was a member of the Pawcatuck Neighborhood.

Mrs. Trainor will be sadly missed by her daughter, Mary Jean VonIderstein, of Marina Bay, Mass., and daughter-in-law, Margaret S. Trainor, of Westerly. She also leaves her sister, Josephine LaDue, of Ilion, N.Y.; she was the devoted and loving grandmother of Megan Blackburn, of Bowling Green, Ky., Maureen Siciliano, of Hopkinton, .RI., Erica VonIderstein and Laura VonIdertein, both of New York, N.Y., and Kyle VonIderstein, of Quincy, Mass.; and great-grandmother of three great-grandsons.

She was the mother of the late Anthony Thomas Trainor.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on today at 11 a.m. in St. Michael's the Archangel Church, 62 Liberty St., Pawcatuck. There is no cortege from the funeral home. Burial will follow in River Bend Cemetery.

Donations in Virginia's memory may be made to the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center, 27 Chase St., Pawcatuck, CT 06379.

Buckler-Johnston Funeral Home,121 Main St., Westerly is in charge of arrangements.