Virginia (Dittie) Dussault died at the Aegis Assisted Living facility in Laguna Niguel on March 8 of complications due to Alzheimer's Disease. She was born on August 6, 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia and moved to Burbank when she was eight years old. She attended Burbank High School where she met Robert W. Dussault who she married on April 23, 1933 in Santa Ana.
During the war, they made their first home in Arcadia, California, and Robert went to work for the Pasadena Post Office until his retirement as Assistant Post Master in 1971. Virginia was employed as one of the artists at Gladding McBean painting the Franciscan Apple Ware and Desert Rose design on their china. After moving back to Burbank, she was employed at Lockheed Aircraft until 1958. She pursued her hobbies of painting and gardening, and they spent weekends at their vacation home in Crestline, California.
Upon Robert's retirement, they sold their Burbank home and moved to the mountains. They spent their retirement years traveling with their boat and camper around California and Arizona. They also belonged to the Crestline Couples Dance club, and loved to play cards with their friends. Upon Bob's death in 1978, Virginia moved to the Laguna Hills Leisure World and became a cruise ship devotee traveling to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico with her "Our Gang" travel club. She remained in Leisure World until March, 2004 when her family had to move her to the assisted living facility.
She had one daughter, Irene Grangetto Stagg, who passed away of cancer in Sausalito, California in March of 1994 and is survived by her daughter, Judith Kay Mittelman, granddaughter, Peggy Jo Grangetto, grandson, Arlan Stagg, and great-granddaughter Summer Irene Stagg. Services will be held Saturday, March 19 at the Faith Chapel at Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park at 12:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County.
Published in Orange County Register on March 18, 2005.
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