Virginia Seely Bourne

Virginia (Ginny) Seely Bourne of Stuart, FL formerly of Bourne, MA, and Medfield, MA died peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on November 8, 2024. She spent her final days at the Hay Madeira Hospice House in Stuart, where she was treated with the utmost kindness, care, dignity, and respect by the staff.

She was the wife of the late Richard Warren Bourne of Waban, MA.

Ginny was born on June 11, 1929, in Medford, MA. She was the daughter of the late E. Deane and Lillian M. Seely (Griffin) of Wellesley, MA. She spent her entire childhood there until she graduated from Wellesley High School in 1947. Ginny then attended Vermont Junior College in Montpelier, VT where she graduated with honors in 1949. She was the president of her freshman class, a title of which she was most proud.

On March 28, 1953, Ginny and Richard were married in Newton, MA. At that time, she worked at US Steel in Boston, where they lived until moving to Medfield, MA in 1955. She remained in Medfield raising her family until she and Richard moved to Bourne, MA in 1986 where they enjoyed their retirement years. During the winter months they traveled to Nokomis, FL where they made many friends within the Fairwinds Condominium community.

After Richard’s death, she relocated to Stuart, FL to live out her remaining years with family and friends always at her side. Known within the Vista Pines community as "the lady who loves to walk," she thoroughly enjoyed her life there, especially swimming in the pool and socializing at the Saturday evening cookouts.

Her greatest joys in life were spending time with family and friends, summers at her cottage on Branch Lake in Ellsworth, Maine, reading, swimming, kayaking, and rooting for her beloved New England Patriots.

To know Ginny was to know a truly exceptional woman, someone who lived an extraordinary life, and shared joy, friendship, and a positive spirit with all who had the privilege to call her family or friend.

Ginny is survived by her daughter, Susan and her husband, Paul Rylander, of North Kingstown, RI. Her son, Richard and his wife, JoLynn LaBarbera Bourne, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her two grandsons, Nicholas R. and Jonathan M. Bourne, also of Fort Lauderdale. She leaves her loving sister, Janet A. Boole, of Stuart, Florida and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her older and loving sister, Glenna S. Wilcox, of South Glastonbury, Connecticut.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 11th, at the Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, 40 MacArthur Blvd, Bourne, MA 02532, at 12:00 pm, Friends and family may gather from 11-12pm. Burial will follow at Oakland Grove Cemetery, off of Shore Rd. Bourne, MA.

In lieu of flowers, the Bourne family kindly requests that donations be made to Treasure Coast Hospice.

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Designated to "General Patient Care" in memory of Virginia Seely Bourne