THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 5, 1994 TAG: 9410050374
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Short : 41 lines
Virginia Pitt Friddell, 70, died Tuesday in Norfolk Sentara General Hospital from the effects of a stroke Friday.
A graduate of Westhampton College in psychology, she began teaching in 1945 to fill a temporary vacancy as a fourth grade teacher at Henry Clay School in Ashland, Va. She found a career.
She taught two years in the fourth grade at Nyack, N.Y., and then in private and public schools in Richmond.
Mrs. Friddell moved with her family to Norfolk in 1963 and, having launched her three sons in elementary school, she organized a lower school library at the Norfolk Academy. She earned at Norfolk State University a masters degree in education of gifted children.
After six years she became, in 1974, a fifth grade teacher in Meadowbrook Elementary School. She retired in 1992, but after a year she volunteered as a teacher in the federally sponsored adult literacy center in Norfolk.
She returned to the public schools in the spring of 1994 to teach with the Stuart Center for Gifted Children and taught in its summer enrichment program for 21 minority children in pre-school activities. She was to continue with them this month and also was scheduled to teach the short story to secondary pupils and to design a year-round reading tutorial program.
She is survived by her husband, Guy Friddell, and three sons, Guy III of Norfolk, Malcolm Pitt of Richmond, and Winn Cullen of Baltimore, and eight grandchildren.
She is also survived by a sister, Jacqueline Suttenfield, and a brother, Malcolm Pitt Jr., both of Richmond.
A private burial service for the family will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Forest Lawn Cemetery, followed by a memorial service at 11 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church in Norfolk on Colonial Avenue. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel, is handling arrangements.
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