Virginia "Ginny" (Donohue) Cooney Morgan

“Home at last!” With loved one’s and earthly Angels nearby, Ginny Donohue Morgan’s spirit left us to “go home” and spend an eternity with her Lord Jesus on Friday, March 24th 2023. Although her physical birth, to parents Dr. George B. and Mary T. Donohue, was in late September of 1935 in Quincy , Massachusetts, her spiritual birth which “lighted her countenance” was in 1970, following the birth of her eighth child and sixth son, while living in New Bedford, MA.

A 1953 graduate of North Quincy High School, where she prepared for her first professional position as a Secretary in the Personal Sales Department of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston, MA, Ginny later worked at New England Mutual through 1957 just prior to her marriage to James Cooney of Rosindale, MA. The young couple moved to Mount Holly, New Jersey in 1958 where her first child, son James Jr., was born while husband Jim was stationed at Fort Dix.

After moving back to Massachusetts, the growing family located themselves in Gardner, MA before moving to Athol, Orange and Granby. In a five year span Ginny gave birth to five more beautiful children, Daniel, Theresa, Timothy, Ellen and Joseph before relocating to New Bedford, MA where three years later Christopher was born and Andrew joined the family three years after that.

Eventually, 21 grandchildren and now 6 great grandchildren would join Ginny in “celebrating the blessing of being alive”.

Although Ginny discovered her natural gift for creative writing before leaving high school, her dream of having a healthy, loving family of her own soon took precedence. She was willing to sacrifice her continuing education in college (at Merrimack College and Fisher College) as her dreams of family quickly became a reality and soon realized that her natural ability and love of writing would not be a priority until her children came closer to being independent with families of their own.

While raising her growing family in Westport, MA, Ginny became an advertising copywriter at radio station WALE in Fall River, MA. She also created a newspaper called “The Good Newspaper” at her church in Swansea , MA and began writing for a Westport, MA based publication called “Poor Bill’s Almanac” as well as weekly newspaper the Dartmouth Chronicle, where she wrote feature stories about local people and developed her own weekly columns including “from the Nest”, “Gleanings” and “Adam and Eve”.

In 1985 after successfully facing and overcoming some life-changing challenges, Ginny returned to single status and found her “second wind”. In 1997, with her children all “grown and on their own”, she met and married her new-found love, Robert Morgan of New Castle England and Plymouth MA. Their wedding took place in Bristol, New Hampshire, site of Newfound Lake, which had been her family’s annual summer vacation home in her youth.

Ginny later wrote for a Bridgewater weekly paper and other weekly papers on Cape Cod, and in 2002 wrote feature articles for the Barnstable Patriot before taking a leave of absence to act as primary caregiver for her husband Bob, who passed away in 2004, eight weeks prior to the passing of her first husband, Jim.

Ginny had long been a practicing amateur photographer, before adding that to her professional portfolio at the Chronicle. Her bookshelves have always been piled high with photo albums, scrapbooks, diaries, letters and journals, detailing and documenting her...and her family’s...productive and creative lives.

For nearly 30 years Ginny worked part-time in the homes of the elderly as a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) in Quincy, Westport and the Hyannis area, where she was one of the original (second ever hired) employees of Home Instead Senior Care of Hyannis.

Ginny wishes to reach out in thankful appreciation for the wonderful friendship so many people on Cape Cod have so freely given her with genuine love and affection over many years.

Her legacy is, and always will be, one of pure and unconditional caring and love for her family, friends and special others, especially her Bible study groups over the years. She will be fondly and long remembered for her gentle kindness and friendship and dearly missed by many.

Ginny is predeceased by her parents Dr. George B. and Mary T. Donohue Lunney, her brother George Donohue and his wife Pat of Hooksett, NH, and her sister Rosemary (Donohue) Reiss of Lake Placid , New York and is survived by her brother Ralph Donohue and his wife Judy, of the Villages, FL, brother-in-law Paul J Reiss of Lake Placid, NY, as well as her children James J. Cooney, Jr and his wife Denise of Coventry, RI, Daniel A. Cooney and his wife Christine of Lakeville, MA, Theresa C. McNulty and her husband Thomas McNulty of Barnstable, MA, Timothy B. Cooney of Petaluma, CA, Ellen M. (Cooney) Toni and her husband Kevin Toni of Hyannis, MA., Joseph P. Cooney and his wife Deborah of Rochester, MA. Christopher B. Cooney and his wife Deborah of Berkley MA, and Andrew W. Cooney and his wife Lori of Bourne, MA, as well as 21 grandchildren 6 great grandchildren and equally numerous and beloved nieces, nephews and cousins.

Visiting hours will be from 4 PM to 8 PM on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at the Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, 154 Route 6A, Sandwich, MA. 02563. A Celebration of Life service will be held on Thursday, April 6th at 10AM at Cape Cod Church, 1205 Nathan Ellis Highway, East Falmouth, MA 02536, followed by interment at Sandwich Town Cemetery, Route 130, Forestdale, MA, 02644. A Celebration of Life reception for friends and family in Sandwich, MA will immediately follow.

Donations in honor of Ginny Morgan may be made to:

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

NAMI Cape Cod and Islands, 3 Mark Lane, Hyannis, MA 02601

https://namicapecod.org/donate/

OR

Alzheimer’s Family Support Center of Cape Cod

2095 Main Street, Brewster, MA 02631

https://www.alzfamilysupport.org/

Thank you in advance, on behalf of Ginny and those you will be helping, for your kind generosity:

“...and the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians: 13

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.nickersonbournefh.com for the Cooney family.