Anne Virginia Bergen

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Anne Virginia Bergen "Ginny"
Ginny died on July 12, 2023, aged 87. She was born in Somerset, UK, the fifth and youngest child of Sir Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse and Lady Konradin (Huth Jackson) Hobhouse. Growing up in the countryside, Ginny was a child during WWII. She participated in one of the first penicillin trials with Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming which saved her young life. Later, she attended schools in Somerset and Berkshire, and graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford. While working in publishing in New York City, she met and married Stephen Windsor Bergen. She then began a teaching career (European and Russian History) in independent schools that stretched over four decades, including at The Madeira School, and in State Department-sponsored summer schools in Lithuania (Stephen's father's birthplace). Ginny was close to her own and to Stephen's family, and they visited their respective families often with their two sons. In later years, her thoughts were full of childhood memories of the close relations among family, the many visitors to her parents' home in Somerset and those in the countryside. She remained culturally British to the core even asking for porridge the day she died. Her husband and best friend of 61 years predeceased her. She is remembered as a loving, loyal, and prudent partner, teacher, mother, grandmother, relation, neighbor, and friend. Survived by two sons and their families. Ginny was a member of St. Alban's Parish for over five decades. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, September 29, 2023 at Saint Albans Episcopal Church, 3001 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016.