Virginia Burwell
American, 1896 - 1975
Virginia Burwell married Donald Breckenridge Wells (1884-1953) in Winsted, Connecticut, on 2 October 1919. Her husband graduated from Yale in 1907 and from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1911. He was a captain in the United States Army and served in World War I, and later, he was the Chief of Surgical Staff at Hartford Hospital. Virginia and Donald Wells lived on Ledyard Road in West Hartford. They had two daughters: Virginia Wells Andersen; and Elizabeth Wells Fahl. Virginia Wells built a house on Mountain Road in West Hartford after the death of her husband on in 1953. She lived there until her own death on Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 1975.
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