Funeral services for Virginia McBride, 89 year old Buffalo resident who passed away Tuesday morning at the Johnson County Health Care Center in Buffalo, will be held Monday, August 22 at 10:00 a.m. from the Union Congregational Church in Buffalo with Reverend Dr. Bob Miller officiating. Interment will be in Willow Grove Cemetery with graveside services to follow the funeral. A reception will be held at the church following the graveside. Donations in Mrs. McBride's memory may be made to the Buffalo Senior Center in care of the Harness Funeral Home at 351 N. Adams in Buffalo. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com

Virginia Sarah McBride was born on December 28, 1926 in Sheridan, Wyoming to Edward and Viona Shellinger. She grew up and went to school in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School with the class of 1943. After graduation she moved to Seattle, Washington and worked for Boeing Aircraft during WWII. I n 1945 she returned and lived in Laramie where she attended the University of Wyoming. She was married on November 9, 1947 in Sheridan to Kelly McBride and they made their home in Laramie where they were both going to school. Virginia received a B.S. in Home Economics from the University in 1949 and in 1950 they moved to Buffalo and lived on the family ranch. In 1955 she took a teaching job at the Klondike Country School south of Buffalo and later taught Home Economics at the Johnson County High School. She also taught elementary school in Buffalo for many years. Mr. McBride went back to college and the family lived in Ft. Collins, Colorado, Bozeman, Montana and Laramie. In 1963 they moved to the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah where she taught school second grade for seventeen years. They also lived in and worked in Montrose and Denver, Colorado. They retired in 1987 and moved back to the family ranch south of Buffalo. Mr. McBride passed away in May of 2013 and Virginia continued living in Buffalo until her death. She was a member of the Union Congregational Church, Kappa Kappa Gamma and PEO. She was the first woman to be elected president of the University of Wyoming Alumni Association. She loved to garden, cook and play Bridge.

She is survived by two sons, Sam McBride and his husband Bill Aaron of San Diego, California and John McBride and Kathi Tarantola of Cheyenne, Wyoming; one brother Edward Shellinger of Fairbanks, Alaska and one sister Mary Gwen Brayton of Sheridan. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband of 66 years.

SheridanMedia.com - Aug. 20, 2016.