Virginia Holmes Brown, age 91, died peacefully at her home in Middlebury on September 23. Born in Troy, New York on December 3, 1922, Ginna was the daughter of Northrup R. Holmes and Bertha May Holmes. She grew up in Troy and attended Emma Willard School for 12 years. Ginna graduated from Vassar College as a member of the Class of 1944-43, when studies were completed on an accelerated timetable because of World War II. Ginna went on to receive a masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Tennessee and completed graduate work towards a doctoral degree at Stanford University. Throughout her life, Ginna spent summers at the camp in Shoreham that her father built in 1928. She and her husband, Theodore G. Brown, Jr., settled permanently in Middlebury in 1979. In Middlebury, as in other places she had lived, Ginna was a dedicated volunteer in numerous civic and charitable organizations. Her interest in the history of New York and New England, and in the Champlain Valley in particular, led her to a career late in life at the Henry Sheldon Museum. There she applied her training in organizational management and her love of the regions history as director of the museum. She organized permanent and topical exhibits, initiated school programs, and oversaw the volunteer guides. Her proudest professional achievement was leading a capital campaign and overseeing a building expansion, which allowed the existing library to be connected to the main museum building. The expansion included a gallery, office space, museum store, and a permanent library for archives now used by scholars, students and the public. Ginna was predeceased by her brother, Alton R. Holmes, and by her husband. She is survived by their five children, Adrienne L. Howard, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Theodore G. Brown, III, of San Francisco, California; Lesley I.B. Schless, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Alison G. Brown, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Deborah Holmes, of Shoreham, Vermont. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren, Meghan and Jeffrey Howard, Karina, Isabelle and Hendrik Schless, Hillary and Bradley Kolodner, Cameron and Andrew Russell, Samuel and Lewis Short, and by one great granddaughter, Natalie Muenzer. A funeral will be held at the Middlebury Congregational Church on Saturday, October 4 at 2:00 pm. A private burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Worcester, New York. Contributions in Ginnas memory may be made to the Henry Sheldon Museum or to Addison County Home Health.