Miss Virinia Mosher has been a member of the Spartanburg WBA since it was formed in the fall of 1959.  Virginia’s first bowling league experience started prior to that in Greenville, South Carolina, when she first moved to South Carolina from Maine in 1958.

Virginia has participated in every City Tournament in Spartanburg which adds to a grand total of twenty four.  She has bowled in National Championship Tournaments in Niagara Falls, Saint Louis, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Atlanta and Memphis.  She has never missed bowling in the South Carolina Women’s State Tournaments which totals twenty six this year.

Not only has Virginia entered all of the tournaments possible, she has also won a few titles.  The team she was a member on won the team event in 1967 during the Southeastern Tournament in Ocala, Florida.

Virginia has the distinction of being the first member inducted into the Spartanburg WBA Hall of Fame.  She is a permanent member of the WIBC.  She, along with four other ladies established the Spartanburg WBA twenty-five years ago.

Virginia has also been very active in the governing bodies of bowling.  She has been 4th vice president of the SCWBA for two years.  She held the office of 3rd vice president for two years, and was a director for eleven years.  She was the chairman of the 25th Anniversary Committee last year, has served as SCWBA Historian, taken care of the 225 Awards for a  number of years.  Her committee assignments have included the Tellers, Credentials, Rules, Ways and Means, and Legislative.

On a local level, Virginia has been the president of the Spartanburg WBA for the past fifteen years.  Before that, she served as the 1st vice president for eight years, secretary-treasurer for two years.  She has been a member of all local committees for twenty five years.

Believe it or not, along with all of her other services, Virginia took an interest in the youth of Spartanburg by serving as treasurer of the Spartanburg YABA.

Virginia is a member of the SC Scratch Travel League and was the president for four years.  She was the president of the State 600 Club for eight years and an adviser for the 225 Masters Club for eighteen years.

While expending all her energies in these various offices, Virginia has managed to keep her bowling up as well.  Her career high game has been a 268, her series a 649 and her highest season average a 174.

Along with all her bowling activities and interests, Virginia’s occupation for twenty four years was as a chemist.

Virginia Mosher has truly been an asset to the sport of bowling in South Carolina.  She has been a vital and productive member of both the Spartanburg WBA and the South Carolina Women’s Bowling Association.  It is an honor for the SCWBA to have her join with the elite society of the SCWBA Hall of Fame.

VIRGINIA MOSHER OBITUARY

Virginia “Ginny” B. Mosher 1920-2007 WATERVILLE, ME– Virginia “Ginny” B. Mosher, 86, died Friday, April 20, 2007, at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Thayer Unit, in Waterville. She was born August 3, 1920, in Rome, the daughter of Irma (Richardson) and Bertram G. Mosher Sr. Virginia graduated from Williams High School, Oakland, in 1937 and Colby College, Waterville, in 1941. She completed the X-ray technician program at Central Maine General Hospital (now Central Maine Medical Center) in Lewiston and did postgraduate studies at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA. She was employed at Central Maine General Hospital in the Department of Radiology for 14 years and was chief technician during the last seven years. She ran the training school for X-ray technicians for six of these years. She also worked as a chemist for Deering Milliken, Inc. in Spartanburg, SC, and Fouke Company in Greenville, SC. Virginia was president of Spartanburg Women’s Bowling Association and was inducted into Spartanburg Women’s Bowling Association Hall of Fame, director on the South Carolina State Women’s Bowling Association and was inducted into the South Carolina State Women’s Bowling Association Hall of Fame. She was a permanent member of the Women’s International Bowling Congress. She was predeceased by a brother, Bertram G. Mosher Jr.; sisters and brothers-in-law, Laura and Thomas Mickewich, Lucile and Ralph Baird, and Ruth and Thomas Creswell. Survivors include sister-in-law, Marguerite Mosher of Rome; cousins, Willa McGowan of Rome, Carroll and Jean Richardson of Presque Isle, and Maitland and Sylvia Richardson of Skowhegan; nephews, Thomas Mickewich and his wife, Donna, of Manchester, Michael Baird and his wife, Colleen, of Mechanic Falls, Thomas J. Creswell of Wells, David Creswell and his wife, Jeanne, of Palmyra, and S. James Baird and his wife, Terri, of Los Angeles; nieces, Sandra Nason and her husband, Wayne, of Belgrade, Natalie Mickewich of Waterville, Jane Kemerer and her husband, William, of Tampa, FL, Virginia Moody of Waterville, Judith Roach and her husband, Eric, of Sidney, Lynn Bushnell and her husband, Donald, of Guilford, CT, Martha Mosher and her husband, Scott Nivus, of Pittston, and Margaret Churchill and her husband, Ronald, of Rome; and many grandnieces and grandnephews and great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. The family expresses sincere appreciation to the kind and caring staff at Woodlands Assisted Living and MaineGeneral Medical Center. Visiting hours will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 PM and 7:00 to 9:00 PM Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at Wheeler Funeral Home, 26 Church Street, Oakland, where a funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Burial will be at Pine Grove Cemetery in Belgrade at a later date. Those who wish may make donations to Pine Tree Society, P.O. Box 517, Bath, ME 04530.