HOBOKEN — Virginia Viola Moore Hanchey, 87, passed away Sunday, May 14, 2023, at her residence in Hoboken, following a lengthy battle with congestive heart failure and lung cancer.
Mrs. Hanchey was the daughter of the late Jesse Moore and Lillie Griffis Moore of Hoboken. She graduated Salutatorian of the Hoboken High School Class of 1953. She was a talented seamstress and designer who owned Virginia’s Mini Mall and Virginia’s Fabrics in Hoboken. She loved sewing, crocheting, and watching TV Westerns with Virgil.
Mrs. Hanchey was preceded in death by infant triplets, Brad, Chad, and Eva Hanchey; son-in-law and daughter, Grady and Bonita Lewis; son, Jerome Hanchey; son-in-law, Charles Allen; 2 grandsons, Devin Lane and Carl Virgil Lewis; sister, Vivian Bennett; brother, Charles Daniel Moore; brother-in-law, Garnell L. Bennett; sisters-in-law, Maxine Moore and Dorothy (Snookum) Berg; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Earl and Cathy Hanchey; and brothers-in-law, Gene Egge and Arlin Blair.
