Virginia Teichelman, 97, passed away on July 7, 2019. She was born at her grandmother's farm house in Hutto on August 9, 1921 to Ira and Maggie Petty. As a child she moved around East Texas and the San Marcos area as her father worked for the telephone company stringing lines in the rural areas. Her family finally ended up in Taylor where she graduated from Taylor High School. Upon graduation she received a scholarship from the American Legion Post to Durham Business College in Austin. When she graduated she came back to Taylor to work at the gas company. Virginia worked there until she married Herbert Teichelman, she then was forced to quit work as the company had a policy that said a married woman could not work for them. She then became a farmer's wife, housewife and mother. During the severe drought of the 1950s she went to work for Wilcox-Elliot grain company as a bookkeeper, she worked for them for 25 years.
Virginia enjoyed camping at Inks Lake, traveling, working wit the Hutto cemetery association, and Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Virginia is preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Herbert A. Teichelman and her beloved sister Nell Bergstorm. She is survived by her two children, Shirley Shay of Round Rock and Dennis Teichelman and wife Nance of Houston, two grandsons, Michael Walters and wife Teresa of the Woodlands and Travis Teichelman and wife Jennifer of Pearland, a great grandson, Dominic Teichelman of Pearland.
Virginia would like any memorial be sent to Immanuel Lutheran Church.
