The Mercury News22%
Virginia Chandler Obituary - Mountain View, CA (1941-2026) 50%
By The Mercury News86%
7/24/2026, 12:05:00 AM
Keywords: Virginia Chandler, Obituaries
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 22.9% saturation with 137 hits. Analysis detected 946 faulty-reasoning hits from 598 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.1% and a BS Rank of 50% (11,046 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 50.50% of the article peer group.
Virginia passed away peacefully on April, 28th 2026.
Ginny and I met on a ski slope on Mount Shasta 62 years ago and we’ve stayed together ever since.
She was an accomplished scholar; she graduated with honors from Notre Dame De Namur University.
She spent 30 years working as a medical researcher at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
Besides being an expert skier, she studied Yoga and eventually became a Yoga instructor in her free time.
Ginny loved music, was a talented pianist, and had a beautiful singing voice.
She also took ukulele lessons, and became quite proficient at the art.
She also was a great cook and created some wonderful exotic dishes native to various countries.
Her garden was replete with a marvelous assortment of herbs, flowering orchids, bougainvilleas, and many other flowering plants.
Ginny loved animals; from dogs and cats to even the lizards that scurried around her garden.
She loved birds, owls and robins, but especially the tiny colored birds that sang lovely songs while she sat near her garden.
Ginny loved people and always tried to see the best in them.
She was always more interested in what others had to say than expounding on her own work or accomplishments.
Aside from that, Ginny was a very good and kind person.
I never heard her say an unkind word about anyone; it just wasn’t in her nature.
And, by being the good person that she was, she made others much better people in return.
Ginny loved to travel.
We traveled from Alaska to the South Pacific, to Europe, to the Greek Islands, to southwest American Indian reservations, especially visiting ancient ruins left by civilizations of the distant past.
Once, after having climbed to the top of a 300-foot- high Mayan pyramid where we could see miles of jungle in all directions, I was fascinated by all the green bumps that could be seen in the distance and which signified yet unexplored pyramids and temples.
When I finally looked away from the huge expanse of jungle, Ginny was nowhere to be seen.
She was gone.
My first terrible thought was that she had fallen off the pyramid and was lying somewhere below.
As I cautiously looked over the side of the pyramid, I saw Ginny hanging from a rusty old chain, lowering herself down to the next level.
After lowering myself down by the same rusty old chain, I asked her why she didn’t tell me she was going over the side on that old chain; she just said, “I don’t know, It just seemed like the right thing to do.
” Such is one of our many memories of our travel adventures.
Now that my beautiful Ginny with her beautiful smile and musical laughter is gone, I only have those bittersweet memories left; but at least I have those.
I will always remember her with my whole heart, Body, and soul.
Two days after her death, I wrote a short poem for her; I’ll end this eulogy with it.
To Ginny:
How quickly do the seasons change.
How quickly do chilly winds turn to summer breezes.
But love, true love, remains unchanged.
Even when one lover is taken away, their love does not die, It remains forever in the ether of the universe.
Until the lovers are joined once more in that unknown cosmic realm.
Jose C. de Leon
A memorial service will be held on July 25th 2026 at 2:00 pm at Saint Athanasius Catholic Church, 160 N.
Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View California
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