Virginia Marie (Getty) Jennings was born on  September 18, 1935, in Azalea, Monroe County, Michigan as the daughter of Russell and Helen (Bowman) Getty.

On March 9, 1957, she married James Jennings in Azalea Methodist Church and they had two children:

  1. Sherrill A. (Jennings) Laskowitz

  2. Keith J. Jennings.

Virginia died on October 26, 2025 at the age of 90. At the time of her death, she was in the Otterbein Ashanti Hospice in Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio.