Virginia “Ginny” B. Brownback, a candid progressive of East Coast gentility who endured a debilitating, decade-long childhood illness before embarking west to start a family and, in her golden years, blossom as an essayist, photographer and perennial globetrotter, died in her Inverness home on September 3, one week after her 87th birthday.
A loquacious wit and impenitent news junky, Ginny relished nothing more than a good social gathering, where she would regale loved ones with…