Virginia L. Walstra
Virginia L. Walstra
Virginia L.
Walstra, 99, of Boise, died Friday, March 4, 2016 in a Boise care facility.
Private
inurnment will be held in Morris Hill Cemetery under the direction of the
Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel and Crematory.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Virginia was born
to Paul and Gertrude Peters on September 19
,
1916 in Boise
,
Idaho. She graduated from
Boise High School in 1934 and at
t
ended Mills College in Oakland, CA for one year and then the
University of Id
a
ho. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. After graduation
she worked for Idaho Po
w
er
.
She met her husband Walter G. Walstra through
a
cousin Sall
y
and Eldon Leightner
.
She played tennis all
summer
w
ith Walter and they
w
ere married on Sept
.
11
,
1937. Walter was an electrical
engineer for Idaho Power and they lived for twent
y
years at Twin Falls
and then
transferred to
Pocatello for five years before moving back to Boise
.
Walter was the Division
Superintendent for Idaho Power until he retired.
After their three
daughters graduated from school
,
Walter a
n
d Virginia spent ten years tra
v
eling all over the world
including such countries as Turkey
,
Ireland, Israel, Greece
,
Italy
,
France
,
Germany
,
Spain
,
Scotland
,
Wales
,
Alaska, Canada
,
Australia
,
and New Zealand which was
her favorite
.
Riding the Eurorail in Europe and the train across Canada
brought her great joy. She was a proud member of the Kiwanis and the Happy Hoo
f
ers. Virginia volunteered
at St
.
Alphonsus,
her church, Collister School, and the 4
-
H
.
She was a member of St
.
Mary's Church for many years and then
St
.
Mark's
during her time at Valley View. Her favorite
p
as
ti
mes were walking in her neighborhood
on Sycamore
D
r
.
,
play
i
ng b
r
idge w
i
th friends, and
r
eading avidly until her
late years when she became legally blind
.
Her husband
,
Walter
,
a brother
,
Colonel Ralph Peters
,
and a grandchild, Paul,
preceded her in death
.
She is sur
v
ived by three daughters, Anne Murdock (Lee) of Fulsom Dam
,
CA, Judy Flanegan (Ed) of
Biloxi
,
MS, and Pam Faino
(
Callan) of Winston-Salem, NC, three grandchildren
,
and three great
grandchildren
.
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