Virginia Atwood, nee Fletcher, was born in 1937 in Richmond, Virginia. She began her lifelong love of learning at Sidwell Friends in Washington DC, winning a scholarship to study in Paris her senior year of high school. Her love affair with Paris began the moment she stepped onto its cobbled stone streets, and continued until her passing. She was passionate about learning and education, earning two master's degrees, passionate about travel, passionate about music, often visiting her Steinway in the middle of the night to challenge Chopin to a duel, passionate about cooking and baking bread, often making the bread rise through sheer will, passionate about thunderstorms, wine, stinky cheese, and, last but not least, her family.

Active in the Tulsa community and an avid supporter of the arts, she served on the board of Philbrook, Tulsa Opera, Tulsa Townhall, and was on the Board of Trustees at the University of Tulsa. She was deeply spiritual and followed her heart, converting to Catholicism because, at the Osage Monastery, the Forest of Peace, she found peace and a community that united Eastern and Western theologies.

Virginia was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, Roger Atwood,and is survived by her sister, Kathryn and her husband Emil Frankel, her three children Marjorie Atwood and her husband Bob Spoo, Kathryn Atwood and her husband Duke Moosekian, and Allen and his wife Pauline Atwood, her grandchildren Sophie and Virginia Spoo, and Stafford Moosekian.

Her family cannot help but believe that Virginia put in a special request for the thunderstorm that provided the backdrop to her burial, and expect throughout the rest of their lives that she will send them small and large reminders of her passions and love.

A memorial service will be held in the fall. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Philbrook Museum of Art.


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