Pieces of Virginia Cumley's Story

This is basically a copy of something I posted yesterday on Facebook, so if you saw it there, you already know most of this.  I did add a link here to the obituary in our local newspaper and an additional paragraph at the end.  Virginia's father's name was Roger Wolfe Kahn.

Tomorrow at Center church is the funeral of our sister, Virginia K. Cumley. We knew her as a friend, herbalist, and lover of the games of Chess and Scrabble. Her father and grandfather were big players on the New York city scene, both having been featured separately on the cover of Time magazine in the past. Her father was a musician, composer, and conductor. Her grandfather was a banker. Read all about it on Wikipedia and listen to some of the younger Kahn's compositions on youtube. It's probably the closest brush most of our church people will ever have with NYC royalty. Read about her father here:

Her grandfather's story is here.   His name was Otto Hermann Kahn.

Virginia's obituary in our local newspaper is here.  Her daughter Teresa and her children Christopher, Crystal, and Charlie are known to our church people.

Virginia's father's estate was administered by a firm housed in the twin towers that were destroyed on September 11, 2001.  The office had not yet opened on that day when the attack came, and the two attorneys Virginia was in constant contact with were not harmed.  One of them was a personal friend of Virginia's father, and both of them took very good care of providing for Virginia's needs.  She made regular trips to New York, and her attorneys visited here on occasion.  They will presumably handle Virginia's estate.  With their help, she began estate planning years ago.