BOYNTON BEACH —Virginia W. “Ginny” Foot enjoyed a life active in professional accomplishments, baseball fandom, travel and her church. She died June 17, a year after her cancer diagnosis. She was 81.
Born July 19, 1941, to Joseph White and Jane Montgomery White, Ginny was raised by her grandmother, Marie White, with adoring “brothers” Dr. Ed and Dr. Ike White, and helped by grand-uncle Roland Somers. She grew up on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and attended Mary Washington College.
Mrs. Foot worked in radio in Accomac and Richmond, Virginia, before becoming a stewardess with Central Airlines from Kansas City. For 10 years she was wife of Frank Messer, a baseball announcer, and found lifelong friends among the Oriole and Yankee clubs, before becoming a Marlins fan.
In 1977, she married Bob Foot, who helped her start the Art of Framing Inc. in Boynton Beach. In 29 years in business, Mrs. Foot served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of Boynton Beach and as a member on some of the city’s advisory boards.
The church was important to her and she provided leadership in Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, West Palm Beach, and served as lay director of the diocesan Cursillo Secretariat.
The couple voyaged from Sitka to Dutch Harbor and Kotzebue and midpoints in Alaska on several trips and enjoyed tours in Europe and China.
On Memorial Day 2022, she was diagnosed with cancer and undertook treatment.
Mrs. Foot leaves Bob, his daughter Sarah, nieces Lee Kilduff (Bill), Laura Anderson (Scott), Carrie White (Paul Campsen), Somers Farkas (Jonathan), Kellam White, and nephew Ned White, Bob’s brother Ted Foot (Pat), sister-in-law Karen Foot and other nieces and nephew and grand-nieces and -nephews and many friends from the churches, neighborhood and beyond.
A celebration of life is scheduled for 10 a.m. July 1 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lake Worth Beach. Committal will be in the family plot in Parksley, Virginia.
Memorial donations may be sent to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 100 N. Palmway, Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460, or American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 13300, Tampa, FL 33681-3300.
— Obituary submitted by the family
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