Virginia Katherine Keupp
Virginia Keupp died September 11, 2015 at Candlewood Valley Nursing Home in New Milford at the age of 94. She was born in Sherman, Connecticut on January 16, 1921 the daughter of George and Katherine Quinn Green the youngest of their seven children. She was graduated from New Milford High School in 1939 and studied nursing at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
She also worked as a secretary for the writer and historian Matthew Josephson.
In 1944 she married Joseph E. Keupp who was a farmer on the Morrisey Farm in Gaylordsville, Connecticut. Later they moved to Sherman where they rented Twin Brooks Farm, owned by E. B. Weiss. In 1961 they moved to Pawling, New York where they took over the operation of Glen Arden Farm owned by Edward R. Murrow. Joe retired from farming in 1983 and they moved to a home on West Dover Road in Pawling.
Virginia (or Jenny as she was known) had a lifelong love of the outdoors and of animals. In the early 1940s she climbed most of the highest mountains in Vermont including Mount Mansfield and Camel’s Hump which she said was the hardest of any of them. She made friends with animals and had a succession of cats, dogs, chickens and ducks. For a few of years she had a lame, wild turkey, named Chippy, who would visit her to be fed and would return each year with her offspring. More recently she had a wild pheasant that would perch on a large rock on the lawn and wait for food.
She was predeceased by her husband Joe in 1994 and her brothers Douglas Green and Vincent Green, and sisters, Ethel Rouse, Evelyn Hipp, and Helen Alfredson. She is survived by her son Michael Keupp and his wife Terry Awe of Pawling, her grandson Douglas Keupp of Wappingers Falls, NY, sister Mabel Smith of Sequoit, NY and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Dutchess County SPCA.
There are no calling hours. Arrangements are under the care of Horn and Thomes Funeral Home with burial in Morningside Cemetery, Gaylordsville, Connecticut at the convenience of the family.
