Virginia House Taylor

Virginia Lee (House) Taylor, a resident of the Fountains of Hilltop in Grand Junction, CO, passed away on May 14, 2026. She was 97. Born on January 28, 1929 to Charles F. and Estelle (Barker) House in Charleston, WV, she was a 1946 graduate of Stonewall Jackson High School, where she was named Valedictorian and winner of the Bausch & Lomb science award. She attended West Virginia University as a Chemistry major, and worked a summer job in the lab at Union Carbide in Institute, WV, where she met Rodney J. Taylor. They married September 4, 1948, and raised their three daughters in St. Albans, WV.

Once the girls were in school, Virginia returned to college, earning first a degree in Elementary

Education from WV State College, and later a MA in Counseling from the WV College of Graduate Studies. She taught 3rd and 4th grades and then became an elementary guidance counselor, all with Kanawha County Schools. In 1975 Virginia and Rodney moved to Dickinson, TX, following his employment transfer. There, Virginia changed careers and became a loan processor for HUD in Houston. She and Rodney joined a square dancing club, and she was known for her creative costumes at their club's Halloween parties. A few years after Rodney's death in 1989, Virginia retired and moved to Grand Junction, CO. She pursued many interests, including volunteering at the local art center and visitor's center, and traveling the world, often with Friendship Force of Western CO. Virginia enjoyed being in nature, spending time at her cabin on the Grand Mesa photographing and sketching wildflowers, and cross country skiing. She loved painting and needlework, enjoyed round dancing, learned to tap dance in her 80's, and made costumes for the local community theater.

Virginia was preceded in death by her parents and her husband. She is survived by her children, Susan (Don) Moyer, Martha (Blair) Cox and Lee Anne (Steve) Northway; grandchildren Mark (Sarah) Moyer, Rodney Moyer, Patrick (Nik Engelhart) Confer, Claire (Christo) Sevov, Paige (Ryan Young) Northway, and Stephanie Northway; and great grandchildren Rachel, Avery and Taylor Moyer, and Sylvia and Everett Sevov.

Per her wishes, Virginia was cremated. There will be a family service later as she is laid to rest beside her husband at Ridgelawn Cemetery in Barboursville, WV. No Colorado service is planned.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests any memorials be made to HopeWest Hospice jn Grand Junction.