She was born May12, 1926 in Masontown, a daughter of the late Frank and Catherine Urbany Valensic.
Carolyn was a 1944 graduate of German Township High School and a 1947 graduate of Uniontown School of Nursing. She was the last living member of her nursing class.
She worked as a registered nurse for many years at the former Greene County Memorial Hospital in Waynesburg.
Carolyn was a member of St. Marcellus R.C. Church in Jefferson. She was an avid reader and listening to audio books, reciting the Holy Rosary with Mother Angelica, watching cowboy shows and westerns on TV, especially Cheyenne Bodie, sewing and being at home with her family.
On January 12, 1949 she married Ernest “Big Ern” Virgili, who died March 10, 2005.
Surviving are five children, Christine Conrad and her husband Sam of Waynesburg, Andrea Semenoff and her husband Terry of Carmichaels, Patricia Benson of Brownsville, Debra Konosky and her husband Michael, Sr. of Waynesburg, and Ernest Virgili Jr. of Mather; 7 grandchildren, Leighanne Brunell, Nathan Conrad, Amanda Conrad, Katie Morgan, Carrie Beth Konosky, Mike Konosky Jr., and Jennifer Konosky; and 12 great grandchildren.
A special thank you to her friend, Shirley and to Rolling Meadows Nursing Home for their care and attention to mom.
