Mary Virginia "Ginny" Kane

Mary Virginia (“Ginny”) Kane died peacefully and surrounded by family on August 15, in Port Sanilac, Michigan. Born on September 19, 1923, Ginny was one month shy of 100 years old. A native Michigander, Ginny was born in Detroit and spent her high school years in Marine City. She attended Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti (now Eastern Michigan), graduating in 1945. She married Robert Leo Kane (deceased 2012) in 1944, prior to his joining the military and the war effort that year. Col. Robert (Bob) Kane made the US Air Force his career, and after teaching primary school for a couple years, Ginny made being an Air Force officer’s wife and mother of five children her career. Robert and Ginny, and their growing family, lived on bases around the world, including the Philippines, Libya, Germany, and Guam, as well as the states of California, Texas, Washington D.C., Alabama, Michigan, Nebraska, and Illinois. Robert Kane retired in 1973, moving the family to California. Soon, Ginny and Bob were spending their winters in California, and summers in Michigan on the Duggan family farm in Port Sanilac. Ginny Kane was a vivacious woman who loved to travel and spend good times with family and friends. She read avidly her whole life, loved theater and classic movies, and always won at Trivial Pursuit. Painting, playing the piano, and genealogy were included in her hobbies. Ginny’s unending positivity, grounded in her deep faith, endeared her to her wide extended family and extensive circle of friends. Indeed, two days before her death, over 100 family and friends, many traveling from across the country, gathered to celebrate her upcoming birthday. Besides Robert, Ginny is preceded in death by their eldest daughter Cynthia Kane, who died in 1999. She is survived by her children Anne Kane, Julia Taslimi, Mari Kane, and John Kane; grandchildren Jack Heller, Tara Good, Gabriel Kane, Julia Yasser, Angela Kane, Katherine Lewin, Vincent Kane, Simon Kane, and Troy Pope; and nine great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 4-8 P.M. on Thursday, August 24 at the Pomeroy Funeral Home in Lexington. Funeral Mass will be held at 11 A.M. on Friday at the Ave Maria Parish-St. Marys Catholic Church in Port Sanilac, with visiting at the church from 10-11 A.M., Fr. Donald J. Eppenbrock will officiate. Interment will follow in the Old St. Marys Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Mary Virginia "Ginny" Kane

September 19, 1923 - August 15, 2023