Virginia McIntosh Beecher ^{2 3 4 5 6}

   FamilySearch ID: LF2L-YLH.

  Burial Notes:

Section 5, Range 9, Lot 8, Grave 4 east tier. No stone.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ² The 1930 census recorded renting at 1620 Beechwood Blvd.: Walter M. Beecher, chemical salesman, 32, living with wife Virginia M., 28; and daughter Virginia M., 2 and 1 month when the census was recorded on 18 Apr 1930. Also in the home was servant Anna Durkin, 17. Walter, his parents, Virginia, and her mother were born in Pennsylvania. Her father was born in Ohio.

2. Census in 1940 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁸ The 1940 census recorded renting at 6536 Wilkins Avenue.: Walter M. Beecher, chemical co. owner, 42, living with wife Virginia M., 38; and daughter Virginia, 12. They were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Newspaper: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Virginia Beecher and Oliver Blair Jr. Wed in Chapel, 11 May 1951, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ¹ Virginia Beecher, and Oliver Blair Jr., Wed in Chapel
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The marriage of Virginia McIntosh Beecher, daughter of Mrs. McIntosh Beecher of Denniston Avenue and Walter McAleese Beecher to Oliver Blair, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Blair of Ligonier, was solemnized yesterday afternoon at 4:30 in the chapel at Pennsylvania College for Women.
The ceremony was performed by the Reverend W. Bruce Wilson of the Sunset Hills United Presbyterian Church.
The bride was graduated from the Winchester-Thurston School and attended PCW.
Joanne Roush attended the bride and Abram Packer Hays, Jr., was best man.
Mr. Blair is a graduate of Billard Academy and attended Lafayette College. He is now stationed at Lowry Field at Denver with the Army Air Force.
They will live in Denver, Col.

4. Residence: on 4 Feb 1985 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁶

5. Obituary: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: obituary of Virginia M. Beecher on 28 Jan 1988 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. ⁴ Virginia Mcintosh Beecher, 85, social director at the Presbyterian Home for the Aged in Oakmont from 1965 to 1978, died there Tuesday of a stroke. She had been a librarian at Chatham College from 1952 to 1959. Mrs. Beecher of Bayard Road, Shadyside, was a member of Eastminster United Presbyterian Church, East Liberty. Friends will be received from 10 a.m. Saturday in Eastminster Presbyterian Church, followed by the service at 11 a.m.

Virginia married Oliver Blair Jr., son of Oliver Blair Sr. and Jane Dermitt, on 10 May 1951 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA.¹ (Oliver Blair Jr. was born on 27 Jun 1930 in Asheville, Buncombe, NC ^{9 10} and died on 17 Aug 1997 in Houston, Harris, TX ¹¹.)