28 July 2009

CTWG: Virginia Fanning Goodsell

Virginia Fanning Goodsell
By: 07/23/2009

Virginia Fanning Goodsell of South Kent, CT died on July 14, 2009 at the age of 83. She was born February 16, 1926 in Greenwich, CT to George Washington Fanning and Cornelia Ingersoll Cable. Her mother died shortly after giving birth and Ginny was raised by her father and stepmother, Lillian Darling.

She grew up on Conyer's Farm in Greenwich, CT, where her father worked. Upon graduation from Greenwich High School in 1944, she obtained her civil aviation license and joined the Civil Air Patrol. After the War she married and moved to Stamford, Connecticut. She later divorced and moved her three children to Kent, Connecticut where she met and married Frank Beckly Goodsell. Frank had two children from a previous marriage and Ginny and Frank had daughter in 1966.

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