Virginia C Kantro

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Virginia Carol

Kantro, who died peacefully on Jun 23, 2025, at SGMC in Valdosta, GA, at

the age of 83. She was a resident of Jasper, Florida. Virginia retired with

FDLRS, (Florida Diagnostic Learning and Resource System) of Jasper,

Florida. She worked with children, teachers, parents and families. She

worked with Children and Family Services and was certified to help people

with Autism and their families. She was passionate about helping those in

need.

Virginia had an impact on each person she interacted with. She was

brilliant, and very talented. She was amazing at air brushing and stripping

vehicles, refinishing and upholstering furniture, painting, making ceramics,

and cooking for her family. She had a green thumb and wanted you to enjoy

and be proud of her plants and trees. She loved to look at every one of them

even if you didn’t enjoy them as she did. She always gave you a plant even if

you couldn’t keep it alive for long. She loved to travel. Her most memorable

trip was overseas with her family to the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France,

and Germany to see where her family originated. We visited the church in

Drolshagen, Germany where our family took prayers, were born, ate,

farmed, loved, and rested their heads. She drove to Key West with her

daughter enjoying the top down on her convertible soaking up the sun. She

was in the delivery room for the birth of her grandchildren and stayed to

help after they were born. She was courageous, inspirational, generous,

kind, loving, private, and giving person. She loved her entire family, despite

their quirks and dysfunction. She worried about them, rooted for them,

protected them, resented them, forgave them, and always kept on loving

them.

Virginia will be desperately missed by all those that she’s left behind. Our

hearts are so broken by this unexpected loss. She was one of a kind and to

be loved by her was to be truly blessed.

Virginia was proceeded in death by her late husband Ronald Kantro, mother

Florence Brickley, stepfather Jerry Brickley JR, father Robert A. Lee, and

half brother Allen Lee. She is survived by stepmother Viola Lee from

Boothbay Harbor, Maine, her daughter Kimberly Lindsey and husband Jerry

Lindsey Jr from Naylor, Georgia, her son Scott Kantro and wife Nancy

Kantro from Lake Park, Georgia, her brother Bob Lee from Port St. Lucie,

Florida, her half brothers Brian Lee, Russell Lee, Christopher Lee, and half

sister Taryn Flanagan and husband Darin Flanagan from Boothbay Harbor,

Maine. She has 5 grandchildren Sabrina Newell and husband Mikey Newell,

Ashley Hansen, Falon Kantro, Bonnie Lindsey and Jerry Lindsey III. She also

has great grandchildren Paisley Newell, Ryker Newell, and Tanner Newell

(on the way), Tobias Haddaway, and Hunter Hoyt. She has many cousins,

nieces, nephews, and friends.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society in

her memory

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