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• Nickname: VIRGIE

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Born to David Basil German and Emma Florence Haltom Phillips, she married Elmer Louis Phillips in June 1919 in McPherson Kansas.

She had two brothers, Homer E. and Clester German. After the passing of her mother on Oct 19, 1900, months after her birth, Virgie, Homer and Clester lived with Stella Chaney Noland and Albert Noland (Stella was their mother's cousin). Her father remarried to Jeannie Forrest Coupar on Oct 20, 1910 in Crawford, Kansas. From that marriage, Virgie had four half siblings; Isabella, Clive, Alfred C, and Rhoda N German.

By May 1910 her brother, Homer, had gone to live with their father while Virgie and Clester remained with the Nolands

Virgie and Elmer had five children, Leonard Leon, Lorita, Harold David, Zerlene Delores, and Elmer Dean. Harold proceeded her in death in 1965.

After the passing of her husband, Elmer, on Sep 13, 1946 she married Benjamin Jesse Walje in Buttler, Missouri on Dec 8, 1953. Ben proceeded Virgie in death on Dec 24 1967.

Virgie was well known for making great pies. She worked at the Tip Toe Inn in Pleasanton. One time her daughter-in-law, Claudine, made a really good pie. Virgie is quoted as asking, "Have you been watching me make pies?" She would not share her secret to great pies with anyone, not even her own children. That's how closely she guarded her secrets.

From about June 1972 onward Virgie lived in a nursing home in Mound City, Kansas. In March 1981 she passed away and was buried in the Walje family plot.

Virginia married Walje, Benjamin Jesse on 8 Dec 1953 in Butler, Missouri, USA. Benjamin (son of Walje, August Herman Sr and Zinn, Katharina) was born on 30 Mar 1885 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, USA; died on 24 Dec 1969 in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas, USA; was buried on 27 Dec 1969 in Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton, Linn, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]