As smoke from burning incense curled around the memorial headstone, a small group silently bowed three times to pay respects to those buried here, in the Chinese Cemetery on the
Baker City, 1926-2020
Virginia Lee Kostol, 94, of Baker City, died suddenly on Dec. 13, 2020, at her home in Baker City.
Services will be scheduled at a later date, when the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted.
Virginia was born on July 18, 1926, at Hoquiam, Washington, to Arthur and Mavie (Olson) Benson. She began first grade a year early, to stop her habit of running off to follow her sister Frances to school. She spent many happy summers with loads of cousins at Lake Quinault. She could swim like a fish.
Virginia was valedictorian of the Hoquiam High School Class of 1943, and her speech topic was âWomen in the War Effort.â Then she was off to the University of Washington, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority, and earned a bachelor of science degree in Home Economics and Education and a fifth-year certificate in Education. In her senior year she met Carl Kostol at a sorority/fraternity exchange. She taught home economics at Hoquiam High School for one y
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