Shenandoah County Library Archives

Shenandoah County Library Digital Archives

Virgie (Funkhouser) Robertson and Daughter, Virginia

Files

Title

Virgie (Funkhouser) Robertson and Daughter, Virginia

Subject

Robertson, Virgie Selenah Funkhouser (1907-1992)
Hale, Virginia Caroline Robertson (ca 1940- )

Description

Photograph of Virgie (Funkhouser) Robertson, seated, and holding her young daughter, Virginia Caroline (Robertson) Hale.

Virgie was a daughter of Isaac Casper and Mary Frances "Mollie" (Mumaw) Funkhouser, a farming family from the Madison District of Shenandoah County. She had several siblings.

Her husband was Daniel Pettigrew "D.P." Robertson (1894-1986).

The family lived in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Virgie worked for the County Government there as a public health nurse.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Oct. 1946".

Contributor

Identified in 2011 by Diane (Miller) Warren, who was Virgie's niece and Virginia's cousin. She was familiar with the image..
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Virgie (Funkhouser) Robertson appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 023300 and 024902.

Identifier

024902

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Virgie (Funkhouser) Robertson and Daughter, Virginia,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/54551.

Comments

Allowed tags: <p>, <a>, <em>, <strong>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>