Sept. 17, 1918 — Oct. 29, 2014

Virginia Waters, formerly of Saginaw, died peacefully at her home in Frankenmuth on Oct. 29, 2014.

Born Martha Virginia Walton on Sept. 17, 1918, in Niles, Michigan, she was the daughter of Margaret Foster and Arthur Walton. She graduated from Niles High School in 1936. She attended Kalamazoo College, where she met her husband Spencer L. Waters. They graduated in 1940 and were married on March 7, 1942.

While Spencer was in the Navy during World War II she did graduate work in sociology at the University of Chicago. She and Spencer moved to Saginaw in 1950. He predeceased her in 1978. She moved to Frankenmuth in 1993.

In her professional life she was a social worker in Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo and later was owner and president of E.A. Boehm Company, wholesale picture framing supplies, in Saginaw. In retirement she was an active volunteer at Good Neighbors Mission, Underground Railroad women’s shelter and as a reading tutor with the Saginaw Public Schools. She was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church, Saginaw, serving as an Elder from 1990 to 1992.

Her survivors include her four sons, Spencer M. (Deborah) of Brooklyn, New York, Robert (Mary) of Saugatuck, David (Marie) of West Bloomfield, and John (Eric Nygren) of Chicago; six grandchildren, Carole (Tim Ayer) of Douglas, Alaska, Andrew of Chicago, Samuel (Tristan) of Maquoketa, Iowa, Patrick of Thornton County, Colorado and Kelli and Molly of West Bloomfield; as well as three great-granddaughters, Lily, Keelyn and Brinley.

Virginia’s family will receive visitors on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Cederberg Funeral Home of Frankenmuth, 590 N. Franklin Street, Frankenmuth, Michigan. Committal Services will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2014, at 1 p.m. at Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, MI. In lieu of flowers gifts may be sent to Good Neighbors Mission, 1318 Cherry Street, Saginaw, or the charity of your choice.

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