Florence Virginia Isley Manotti Schoonover
January 3, 2022
Sadly, we just lost the center of our family, Virginia Schoonover, at the age of 94. Known as Ginny to her many friends, she was born in Birmingham, Alabama, to her mother Inez Weiss and father John Isley, who preceded her in death. Ginny was also preceded by her sister Mary Thomaskevitch, her brother Chandler Lucas, and her granddaughter Angela Sobieski Reichel. Ginny’s first husband and father to her children, Michael M. Manotti, passed away in June, 1962.
Ginny remarried and is survived by her husband Melvin Schoonover and sister Janet Jones. Ginny is also survived by five children and their spouses: Kathy and Frank Gavidia, Toni Tritsch, Angie and Gerry Sobieski, Jan and John Swinson, and John and Sandra Manotti. Ginny is also survived by 14 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. When her first grandchild, Michael Gavidia, had trouble pronouncing the word grandma, she became forever known as Mamaw, the name her large family affectionately calls her to this day.
Ginny first heard about Jehovah God’s many promises in the Bible concerning the hope of living forever in a paradise on earth from her best friend in Miami. After studying the Bible, she was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses on March 4th, 1956. Persevering through the many challenges she faced over the years, she remained throughout her life an inspirational example to all who knew her. She will be greatly missed until we are all reunited.
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My condolences to the entire family for your loss. Death is our enemy but thanks to our merciful God Jehovah, we WILL see our loved ones again. This is my hope for my father who recently passed away as well.
May Jehovah comfort your heart as the memories surface in your mind. Many hugs! 🤗
Deepest regards. Much love & many prayers. Jehovah is yearning to reunite Jenny with her family in paradise. Each day is one day closer! Revelation 21:4-5.
I am so very sorry for your loss. I know the pain of losing someone you love, but the God of all comfort will help you cope until that void is once again filled in the near to be realized New World. “Death will be no more—Revelation 21:4 I pray you will have peace.
I’m sorry to hear of your family loss. Our dear sister is just waiting for us and sleeping until Jehovah says it’s time. Then Jesus will call her out of her memorial tune and she will be young and forever beautiful. My heart goes out to your family and my words can’t express my heartfelt condolences.
Keep leaning on Jehovah and One day soon we will see her again.
We've known the Schoonover's for only a year but Ginny will be missed a lot. As she used to tell me. It will be great to be in paradise forever with a smile. Until we meet again!
Hugs to Mel and all her family.
Though we met only a few times in the last few months, I got to tell my family each time I saw her how beautiful it was to see her serving Jehovah, and as the words above said, what an inspiration that is. Prayers of peace and calm hearts to the whole family. Love The Vasquez Family.
Our deepest sympathies to the entire family. Death is truly an enemy. We serve such a loving God knowing that we will see our loved ones again. You are in our thoughts and prayers. May Jehovah give you comfort.
Ginny's best friend mentioned in the obituary was also my late mother's best friend. Ginny has been a part of my life since her and her friend Fran helped my mother care for my late twin and I when we were first born and returned from the hospital. She was a gracious lady who loved to talk about spiritual matters. I always enjoyed our conversations based on the Bible. We are keeping all of you in our warmest thoughts and prayers.
My sincere condolences to the entire family. May Jehovah pour out His Spirit and bring you comfort, that you may in turn comfort others…
"Praised be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our trials so that we may be able to comfort others
in any sort of trial with the comfort that we receive from God"
2 Cor 1:3
Warm christian love,
Victoria Price
We are so sorry about your loss, but she is in Jehovahs' memory.
I miss my mom so much and can’t wait to hug her and see her again! I loved her with my whole heart. She was the best mom anyone could ever want.
Jehovah never intended for us to have to endure the pain the death of a loved one causes. May he comfort you until you can be reunited with her. We send you all much love and many prayers to help heal the ache in your hearts.
She is now among the many Millions of Jehovah's people who can only be found in His memory. But, what a great memory He has! She is free from the pressures and anxieties of this world, and will come back to a beautifully fulfilled promise of paridise. We look forward to seeing her there! One in a very large crowd to be resurrected, however by no means insignificant.
With Deepest condolences from Ralph and Alberta Cohn. We knew Ginny for many years as a very spiritual sister who will we see again soon. Love to the families.
Ron and I knew Ginny for many years and have always loved her. We appreciated her in our congregation. She was a spiritual GEM! We fondly remember how persistent she was with her return visits and her upbuilding comments at the meetings. There are so many spiritual things we remember about our loving sister. Also, she was a generous friend crocheting dish rags and scrubbies for us. Ginny was a talented artist. We are attaching the 2 pictures she painted for us. They have been hanging in our bedroom for many years. We look forward to seeing her healthy and vibrant in the Paradise New World. Much sympathy to her family during this difficult time. Make the "joy of Jehovah your stronghold." Love, Ron and Melody
I know that I am disfellowshipped but I still love the family and offer condolences. She seemed to live a long wonderful life with family and friends, and I am glad that she can finally rest now without pain. I am not sure if my prayers count right now but I will still pray for everyone to be able to receive comfort and be able to heal.
I would be really remiss if I didn’t add a comment to my Dear Wife’s obituary. She was such a wonderful person to me and to say that I miss her so much at this point in time would be an understatement. She was everything to me and living with her in the condition she was in for the past 5 years taught me so much, especially patience. It meant so much to take care of this person, living with such a debilitating condition. She was pleasurable, kind, generous, loving, patient, caring, and above all else, she was loyal, especially loyal to Jehovah. She was baptized on March 4, 1956 and to her date of death, was 65 years as one of Jehovah’s servants. That is lacking 1 year of being 2/3 of a century serving Jehovah. What a blessing to live with such a wonderful and loyal woman. I could write a book about our 43 years of marriage. She died just 11 days before our Anniversary, which was January 14th and just 30 days before her 95th birthday. There are probably many other stories like this one, but this one is very special to me. I love you Sweetheart, forever and always.
To All the family we send our sincere condolences. I remember your Mom as a gentle and caring person.
We all look forward to the time we can welcome back our loved ones. No more pain, no more suffering and
best of all no more death. Rev. 21:3-4.
Warm Christian Love,
Jeanne and Ron Alcantaro