Virginia Kelly DiLullo's Obituary
Virginia Kelly DiLullo, better known as Ginny, passed away on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at Carlton Senior Living in Fremont, CA. She just celebrated her 95th birthday a couple of weeks before. She was born to the late John Edgar Kelly, Sr. and Ethel Morris Kelly in Sanford, North Carolina.
She grew up on her family’s tobacco farm where they raised pigs and chickens, too. She played basketball in high school and later joined the school choir. Later in life, she went to work as a switchboard operator at Terminal Station in Jacksonville, Florida. There she met her late husband Nick who was on duty there as an MP for the Navy. They married in Georgia and soon traveled together all over the world with the Navy, bouncing from city to city as Nick’s assignments took him to places like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Texas and Guam. They settled in the Bay Area in 1965. Ginny and Nick lived most of the rest of their years in Newark and raised their daughter Kathleen and twin sons Daniel and David.
Ginny loved working with children and retired from the Newark Unified School District in 2005 after 28 years of service. She and Nick spent a decade following and volunteering for bay area drum and bugle corps where her sons participated and taught.
She was predeceased by her beloved husband of 49 years, Nick Joseph DiLullo, and her siblings Lyndon Kelly, Eugene Kelly, Kathleen Taylor, and John Kelly, Jr. She is survived by her sons Daniel DiLullo and David DiLullo of San Jose, CA; daughter Kathleen Howe, her husband Stephen Howe and granddaughter, Lily Howe of Saint Albans, VT; and brother Billy Kelly and wife Doris of Raleigh, NC; and several nieces and nephews.
The family will have a private burial at Chapel of the Chimes in Hayward, CA followed by a memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The American Stroke Foundation https://americanstroke.org/donate/
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