Virginia Ann Mack

July 20, 1916 - June 9, 2009

Virginia Ann Mack was born July 20, 1916, at her home located on Park Street, Toledo, Ohio. Her parents were Vincent and Antoinette (Rybus) Sanecki. She was very bright and skipped the seventh grade. In spite of being the youngest in her class, she was the top student each year at Parkland School. In 1928, she and her family moved to Garden Road, where she lived on a twenty acre farm with a large apple orchard. At age fifteen she started working at S.S. Kresge Company as a clerk. She was rapidly promoted and worked as the head bookkeeper until age twenty-five. She then joined the war effort, working one and a half years at an aviation factory as an autopilot inspector. She was forced to stop work as a result of an industrial-related chemical burn injury. She married Stephen Alexander Mack on May 8, 1943. He was an attorney who practiced law from 1942 until his death in 1986. They had been married forty-three years. She was a devoted homemaker who was proud of her family. She was a meticulous housekeeper and enjoyed maintaining her home and yard. She lived independently until suffering a stroke on January 12, 2003. She then became a resident at The Elizabeth Scott Community until her death on June 9, 2009. She is survived by her two children, Michael Mack (Julie), Toledo and Annette Custer (Jeffrey), Coldwater, MI; four grandchildren who include Laura Roberts (David), Andrea Hudak (Tom), Brian Custer, and Amy Custer. She had two great-grandchildren, Natalie Roberts and Katherine Hudak. She was preceded in death by her brother, John Sanecki. Friends are invited to visit on Thursday, June 11, 2009 from 3:00-8:00 p.m. in the Ansberg-West Funeral Home, 3000 Sylvania Ave. Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. Rev. Robert Reinhart Officiant. Interment in Calvary Cemetery. Those wishing to make memorial contributions are asked to consider Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.