Virginia Norma Windmoeller, 94 of Mechanicsville, MD passed away peacefully in her sleep March 8, 2015 at Hospice House of St. Mary’s in Callaway, MD. Born June13, 1920 in Hastings, NY, she was the daughter of the late Charles P. Burghart and the late Cora LaRobardiere Burghart. Her early childhood was spent in Syracuse, NY while her father managed a Buick dealership. After the stock market crash in 1929, her family moved back to the family farm. She graduated from a one room schoolhouse and continued on to graduate from high school. She studied nursing for a year and then went on to business school. She met her future husband, Henry F. Windmoeller, in Syracuse, NY. They were married at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church on March 11, 1941 in Syracuse the day before Henry had to report to basic training after being drafted into the U.S. Army. For a while she worked at the Glen L. Martin bomb factory as a receptionist/secretary. Virginia was in the first group of five military wives to join their husbands in Heidelberg, Germany at the end of World War II in 1946. She attended some of the Nurnberg trials. Learning the German language, customs, […]
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