Virginia V. Slocum

Virginia “Ginny” Elizabeth Emma V. Slocum of St. Michaels, MD, formerly of Allentown, PA, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, January 1, 2005. She was 67. Born October 18, 1937 in Freeport, on Long Island, New York, she was the daughter of the late Oliver Todd and Virginia Dunlop Van Nostrand. Ginny attended Roosevelt School and Hemstead High School. She graduated from Northampton County Area Community College, Bethlehem, PA in 1971 and worked for many years as a registered nurse at Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center in Allentown, PA. In this position, she developed the hospital’s first Infection Control Program. Later, she worked as the Manager of Infection Control for Shore Health System and, most recently, as an associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ginny was a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She was an active member of the Lutheran Church her entire life and was most recently a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Easton, MD. Married to Charles F. Wieder, Sr. of Englewood, FL for over twenty years, she enjoyed a warm friendship with his mother, Marion Wieder. Together, they had three children, who survive her, Janie Player and her husband Tom of Woodbine, NJ, Charlie “Chuck” Wieder and his wife Linda of St. Michaels, MD, and Gail Urland and her husband Todd of Saylorsburg, PA. Ginny is also survived by eleven grandchildren, Jenessa, Sara, Jennifer, Shelly, Kim, Tom and Kerry Player, Tim and Mike Wieder, and Corrine and Kara Urland; one great-grandchild, Keith Player-Palek; and two loving nieces, Cathy Vollano, her husband Anthony and children Danielle, Adrianna and Zachary; and Christen Jacobsen, her husband Kevin and son Ryan. She was preceded in death by her husband, Will Slocum and one sister, Olive M. Moyse. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 12:00 Noon at Grace Lutheran Church, Easton, MD. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be given to the Memorial Fund of Grace Lutheran Church, 111 Brookletts Ave., Easton, MD 21601 or Talbot Hospice Foundation, 586 Cynwood Dr., Easton, MD 21601. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton, MD.