GALION - Virginia "Ginny" Dougherty of Galion, Ohio, left this earthly life on February 11, 2025. She was born on June 27, 1934, in Prospect Ohio, the youngest of 6 children born to Lawrence and Louise McLaughlin. Ginny's life started out a bit rough, losing her father at just one year of age and going in and out of orphanage care along with her older sister Eileen and her 2 brothers. All throughout mom's life her sister Eileen was her staunch advocate and protector. Mom attended a Catholic elementary school where she remembered two nuns who were especially helpful: one who taught her to read, and another who kindly ignored mom's love of dill pickles… Some mornings her brother John would give mom a nickel, with which she would buy a dill pickle in a paper bag that she smuggled into her desk at school, periodically lifting the top of her little-kid desk to sneak a bite. Mom said later she was sure everyone could smell that pickle, but the nun never said a word and instead allowed this

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