GULF STREAM — During the three decades Virginia Lyne Sloan lived in Gulf Stream, she played golf, tennis and bridge, did some needlepoint — and wore a bunny suit, in season.
“For several years, she would dress as the Easter bunny for the children at the St. Andrews Golf Club. She’d be holding a big Easter basket,” recalls her daughter, Laura. “She was game for anything. She just loved life.”
A native of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Sloan died Nov. 2, surrounded by her family. She was 88.
After graduating from the Winchester Thurston School, she worked as a hat designer at Miss Rose Chapeau and as a buyer for Mary Binns, an exclusive dress shop in her hometown.
She married William Lytle Sloan II, an investment banker, and they honeymooned on a train to California, where Mr. Sloan left for active duty in World War II.
The couple were married more than 50 years. Mr. Sloan died in 1995.
Leaving work to raise her family she still found time to volunteer with the Shadyside Hospital Auxiliary Board, the Junior League, Shady Side Presbyterian Church and other organizations.
“She never had an unkind word to say about anyone,” her daughter remembers. “Even if we encouraged her to do so, she always saw the best in everything. She was very funny, and up until the very last moment she always had her hair done, her nails done. Even when I would drive her to all those doctors’ appointments, she had earrings on and her hair done, even though she wasn’t feeling well for most of the last 10 years.”
In addition to her daughter Laura, of Boynton Beach, Mrs. Sloan is survived by two other daughters, Margaret and Barbara, also of Gulf Stream; a brother, Robert A. Lyne Jr., of Atlanta; four grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A reception in her memory was held in the Governor’s Room of The. St. Andrews Club on Nov. 10, with a burial to follow in Pittsburgh next spring.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations may be made to Hospice By The Sea, 1531 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, FL 33486.
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