Virginia Alice Trauth has gone home to be with her creator. After more than a century, she left this life December 19, 2019 with her family by her side. Born in Barrington, New Jersey on August 20, 1919 to the late Anna Thelma Osborne Kropp and the late Edward Moore Kropp, she recently celebrated her 100th birthday.
She was an amazing independent widow who lived by herself until she turned 100. She was talented with crafts, painting, and sewing. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but lived in Villas, New Jersey; Bellmore, New York; Barrington, New Jersey; Medway, Massachusetts; Rochester, New York; Hollywood, Florida; Flat Rock, North Carolina and Brunswick, Georgia. She worked for RCA in Camden, New Jersey, but during WWII she worked for Bendix making gyrocompasses for the military. Her first husband, George Walter Hurst, was an Army medic in Europe during WWII, but died in 1950 in the Air Force, in a training accident at Randolph Field, Texas. She remarried in 1953 to George Schone Trauth, an Army veteran of WWII and Korea. They were married for 51 years when he died in 2004. She was manager of the Peck & Peck women’s clothing store in Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey, when it opened as the first enclosed climate-controlled mall in the U.S. She then managed women’s clothing stores in Massachusetts; Rochester, New York and Hollywood, Florida.
She was predeceased by her brother, Edward Kropp and his wife Jane. She is survived by her son, George Kenneth Hurst and his wife Connie Joan Hurst, of Brunswick, Georgia. Her four grandchildren are Stephanie Joan Hurst of Atlanta, Georgia; Christopher Michael Hurst and his wife Ivy Hurst of Antipolo City, Philippines; Kevin Todd Hurst of Cape May, New Jersey; and Kelly Georgene Routten of Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. She is survived by four great-grandchildren, Kaitlin Hope Hurst Hicks and her husband Zeth Hicks of Pensacola, Florida; Andrew Timothy Hurst of Pensacola, Florida; Holli Brynne Routten and Bryce Caden Routten of Fuquay Varina, North Carolina.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 1 o’clock p.m. at the Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home Chapel, 3321 Glynn Avenue, Brunswick, GA 31520. The service will be officiated by Pastor Christopher Michael Hurst of the Metroview Baptist Church, Antipolo City, Philippines. Light refreshments to follow the service. A Graveside Memorial Service will be held at a later date in May, 2020 at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Hospice of the Golden Isles, 1692 Glynco Parkway, Brunswick, GA 31525 or www.hospice.me. Hospice was a great source of help for her and the family for the last 3 months of her life.
Arrangements are entrusted into the care of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home www.edomillerandsons.com
