{"id":5460,"date":"2022-02-05T14:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:25:31","slug":"virginia-r-ginny-appleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=5460","title":{"rendered":"Virginia R. “Ginny” Appleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Virginia R. \u201cGinny\u201d Appleton \u2013 (89) \u2013 of Arkport, died Friday evening (February 4, 2022) at St. James Hospital, following a long illness.<\/p>\n

Born in Manitowoc, WI on March 4, 1932, she was the daughter of William & Mary Gertrude (Wesler) Runge. \u00a0\u00a0In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, William.<\/p>\n

In 1954 she married George Appleton of Ionia, NY.<\/p>\n

Ginny grew up in Manitowoc, WI and attended Lawrence University.\u00a0 She later graduated from National-Lewis University in Evanston, IL with a BA Degree in education.<\/p>\n

She resided in Honeoye Falls for many years and was a third grade teacher at Honeoye Falls Central School.\u00a0 She later served as office manager at a dental practice in Honeoye Falls.\u00a0 Ginny was a member of the Honeoye Falls Zoning Board of Appeals and later of the Planning Board.\u00a0 She was also active in FISH, Meals-On-Wheels, Totiakton Garden Club and Literary Club.<\/p>\n

George & Ginny moved to Prattsburgh where they lived until moving to Arkport in 2005.<\/p>\n

While living in Prattsburgh, Ginny and George were members of St. Patrick\u2019s Church.\u00a0 After moving to Arkport, they were members of St. Brendan\u2019s Parish of Almond, NY.<\/p>\n

Ginny was an avid knitter and would knit sweaters for her young grandchildren and great-grandchildren every year. She also knit dozens of lap-robes and hundreds of booties for the VA.\u00a0 She was a life-long follower and fan of the Chicago Cubs and of the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

In addition to her husband, George, Ginny is survived by her daughter, Mary Brownell of Canisteo; 4 grandchildren, Jessica (Anthony) Barnum of Pompy, NY, Sarah (Jon) Hager of Fayetteville, NY, Rebecca (Amir) Mirdamadi of Raleigh, NC and Kevin (Cheris) Mazanec of Hornell; 6 great-grandchildren, Timothy Barnum, Trevor Barnum, Ethan Barnum, Elizabeth Barnum, Emmit Hager and Anderson Hager; her sister-in-law, Barbara Runge of Shakopee, MN; her niece, Lisa (Mitch) Engelhart of Roswell, GA; along with numerous cousins.<\/p>\n

The family of Virginia R. \u201cGinny\u201d Appleton will receive friends on Monday (February 14, 2022) from 4:00 PM \u00a0\u2013 7:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.\u00a0 A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday (February 15, 2022) at 11:00 AM at St. Brendan\u2019s Church in Almond.\u00a0 Burial will be in St. Bridget\u2019s Cemetery in Bloomfield, NY at the convenience of the family.<\/p>\n

Ginny\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name be made to the Hornell YMCA or to the Hornell Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia R. \u201cGinny\u201d Appleton \u2013 (89) \u2013 of Arkport, died Friday evening (February 4, 2022) at St. James Hospital, following a long illness. Born in Manitowoc, WI on March 4, 1932, she was the daughter of William & Mary Gertrude (Wesler) Runge. \u00a0\u00a0In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}