Virginia Louise Emborg

Virginia Louise Emborg was born to Thomas and Norma Harris on Oct. 31, 1918, in Denver, Colorado. Norma passed away from the flu of 1918 on Nov. 3, just three days after Virginia was born. Virginia's maternal grandparents raised Virginia until she was 6. At that time, her grandmother passed away and Virginia and her grandfather went to live with her aunt and uncle.

Thomas had a homestead north of Pompey's Pillar. When Virginia was 10, she came to live with her dad, her stepmother Agnes and her older brother Merle. Recently, she told Dan that to get to Montana they loaded her, her "stuff" and her dog, Buster, in the back of a truck. She had lived for 10 years a few blocks east of Colorado's Capitol in bustling Denver and now found herself on a remote Montana homestead, riding seven miles by horseback to get to a one-room school.

At 16, Virginia moved to Billings to attend high school. She lived with her paternal grandmother. It was during this time that she met James "Jim" Emborg. After Virginia graduated from high school, she and Jim were married on May 29, 1938.

When their oldest son, also named Jim, was 2, they met the servants of God and attended a tent mission. One day recently, Virginia said: "It brought me hope and joy."

Jim and Virginia raised their four children in Billings. Virginia worked a number of years as a nurse's aide at the Billings Deaconess Hospital, now known as the Billings Clinic. After her children were raised, Virginia went back to school and became a Licensed Practical Nurse and worked at the Deaconess Hospital until she retired in 1983.

After Jim's death in 1991, she continued to live at the family home until she was almost 90. At that time, she went to live with her son Dan, and his wife, Anita. She lived with them for four years and in May 2013, she moved to Eagle Cliff Manor, where she has lived since.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim; her oldest son, Jim; one brother, Merle Harris; one sister, Ruth Dauenhauer; and a daughter-in-law, Rocki Emborg.

Virginia leaves behind three children, Dan and Anita of Billings, Cheryl of Roseburg, Oregon, Margaret and Jay Jeppesen of Scappoose, Oregon, six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, and several nephews and nieces.