Virginia "Fritzie, Sissie" Turley Paulsen

Virginia Turley Paulsen, born 5/3/1932 left this world peacefully on 4/4/2024. She died from natural causes.  Surviving her are her children: Nancy G. Moseley, John W. Moseley, III, and Marian V. Moseley, and her step- sons, William F. Paulsen, George T. Paulsen, and Robert C. Paulsen; grandchildren: Katy Cobb, Caroline Paulsen, Ryan Lawyer, Kristin Hedges, Ashley Blike, Blair Valenti, Joe Killian and Sol Killian; and great grandchildren: Gadsen, Lola, and Grady Cobb, Cora, Brynlee, and Bodhi Hedges, Harper and Charlotte Blike, and George Valenti. Virginia was predeceased by her husband, William Fred Paulsen on 9/18 /2017 and her son, Fred Moseley.

Virginia was born in Baltimore, MD to Virginia and Fred Turley on May 3, 1932. She grew up in Kinston, NC, graduated from Kinston High School and completed 2 years of college when she got married to John W. Moseley, Jr. During her marriage, she had 4 children, and she did landscape work, adding beauty to the gardens she touched. She and John divorced. 

Following the divorce, Virginia finished her teaching certificate at East Carolina University. Virginia had talent for another type of creative expression, creating a pen and ink drawing of Gordon Street Christian Church in Kinston, NC. The drawing was used for the programs handed out at Church on Sundays.  She taught at Teachers Memorial School in Kinston for several years until she remarried William Fred Paulsen (Bill) in 1969. 

During Virginia’s marriage to Bill, they moved to Southeastern Pennsylvania. Together they designed and built a house in Chadds Ford on a lake with the help of all their children and that of high school friends of their daughter, Marian. The house became known to family members as “Camp Sissy” since Virginia and Bill entertained their nieces and nephews during their Summer breaks from school. Virginia had a love of gardening and antique collecting and refinishing.  She and Bill created a beautiful home with meticulously landscaped ornamental gardens surrounding it. After Bill retired, Virginia and Bill opened an antique store in the Chadds Ford Village Shops. They bought antiques at auctions and estate sales and refinished them, selling them at their shop.

Virginia and Bill ultimately moved to Bradenton, Florida where she cared for him while he recovered from a dissecting aortic aneurysm.   They remained there to the end of their lives, enjoying the scenery, weather, fishing, and bird watching. They were cared for at the end of their lives by Debra Hubbard and Linda Davis, who provided very good care to both.