THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 25, 1996 TAG: 9604250356
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SCOTLAND NECK LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Ruby McGwigan Purrington, widow of Philip Parker Purrington Sr., died April 24, 1996, in Kilmarnic, Va.
Born in Enfield, N.C., in 1908, she was the daughter of the late Charles Edward McGwigan and Annie May Whitaker McGwigan. She attended St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C., and the Boston Kindergarten School in Boston, Mass. She was a member of the Jamestown Society and a longtime member of Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach, where she was very active as a choir member and organist and participant in the Galilee Sewing Group. She was also an active member of the choir and played the organ for the Church of the Advent in Enfield, prior to moving to Virginia Beach in 1949.
Surviving are daughters, Junie McGwigan Purrington Hickman and Georgie Ann Purrington Rikard of Columbia, S.C., and sons Philip Parker Purrington Jr. of Merry Point, Va., and Charles Edward McGwigan Purrington of Virginia Beach; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a niece, Louise McGwigan Hall; and nephews, Bracey Frederick Fountain and Arthur Whitfield Fountain.
The funeral for Mrs. Purrington will be Friday at 1 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, Scotland Neck. Interment will be in the Old Trinity Episcopal Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Galilee Episcopal Church for the benefit of the Ladies Sewing Group. Altmeyer Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
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