Virginia June Mainwaring

Virginia June Mainwaring, 91, of Bainbridge Island, died Feb. 25 at her daughter’s home on the island.

She was born Sept. 21, 1913 in Spokane, to Minnie (Ackley) Pemberton and Dudley Pemberton.

She spent her childhood in Spokane and attended Washington State University, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

She married Irvin H. Baltzer and moved to Seattle, living on their first boat and spending many hours sailing on Puget Sound with friends. Their daughter, Carolyn J. Pearl was born in 1936.

The family later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where they built another boat, a 50-foot ketch named the Bluejacket which the family sailed to Hawaii in the Trans Pac in 1953.

She and Irvin were married 15 years. Virginia later worked as a secretary and stockbroker for a firm in Oakland, Calif.

In l966, she married Ross Mainwaring and lived in Alamo and Walnut Creek, Calif. They spent much of their time traveling in Europe, Asia and Hawaii. He preceded her in death in 1988.

She loved her family, loved all animals, especially dogs, and contributed to charities connected with them. When her health failed in 1999, she came to Bainbridge Island to be watched over by her daughter until her death.

She is survived by daughter, Carolyn June Pearl of Bainbridge; granddaughters Amy Elizabeth Pearl of Portland, Ore., and Sarah Jane Pearl of Bainbridge; grandchildren Megan Elizabeth Pearl-Alameda and Taylor Conrad Alameda of Portland, Ore., and Elliot Newfield Pearl-Sacks and Caroline Elizabeth Pearl-Sacks of Bainbridge.

Interment was March 4 at Port Blakely Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Kass Funeral Home.