Virginia (Ginger) Faye Strunk Kornegay
August 16, 1949 ~ September 1, 2023

Ginger joined many friends and family members in eternal peace on Friday night, September 1, 2023. She was surrounded by family. Funeral services will be 2 PM Sunday, September 10, 2023, at Searsville Country Church near Valley Mills, Texas, under the direction of Foss Funeral Home and Cremation Center.  Interment will be at the China Spring Cemetery.

Visitation will be Saturday  5 - 7 P.M. at the funeral home.  Memorials may be made to Scott & White Hospice or the Flamingo Exhibit at the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas.

She was born to Truman C Strunk and Sammie L Tackitt Strunk on August 16, 1949 and welcomed home by sister Lana Kay.  Ginger was a spunky, cheerful, courageous, daring, independent but loving child. Those words described her whole life. She loved to play in the dirt, run with the boys and beat them at their own games. As a teen, she enjoyed skating and making her own skating skirts (sometimes out of other family members clothing). She also developed a love and talent for styling hair, hers and everyone else's. Ginger grew into a talented stylist and arranged hair at various salons in Waco for 40 years. She loved cruising, anything tropical and she loved flamingos. She married Billy G Kornegay and they enjoyed many activities with friends and family. Their favorite pastime being going on cruises. Ginger was a devoted daughter, wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved her family and her God with ferocity. She attacked cancer the way she attacked life, head on and on her own terms. Words will never adequately describe how much she will be missed.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Truman and Sammie Strunk, and husband Richard Travis.

She is survived by her loving and devoted husband, Billy G Kornegay; a sister, Lana K Strunk Lewis and husband James; her children, Wendy Southern, Mark and Stephanie Southern, Rachelle Travis Baublitz, Donna and Robert Mills, Billy and Missy Kornegay; her grandchildren, Dusty Southern and Shae, Randy and Megan Burnett, Jacee Ainsworth and Hunter, Trenton Southern, Preston Southern, Caitlyn Mills, Makenzie and Nick Lucas, Camron and Morgan Mills, Krista and Bubba Holdbrook, Jordan and Stephen Lynch, Kayleigh Kornegay, Katelyn Sincerney and Tanner Tynes; great grandchildren, Harper Burnett, Kendall Massey, L J Holdbrook, and Brody Lynch.

Pallbearers will be Dusty Southern, Randy Burnett, Trenton Southern, Preston Southern, Camron Mills.   (Honorary) Tanner Tynes, Brandon Wilson, Nick Lucas, Bubba Holdbrook, Stephen Lynch

Virginia Kornegay Memorial Video

Ginger, Ginger

Doesn't Ginger look pretty today,
Wearing her new dress of yellow pique?
It's trimmed with tiny ruffles and lace,
And a ribbon holds her dark hair in place.
She is giving a party and is so excited,
Guests of both sexes have been invited.
She greets each guest at the door with a smile,
Then they all go out on the lawn for a while
To play games until refreshment time
When they will come inside to dine.

When Ginger brought her guests inside,
Her eyes betrayed her feeling of pride,
She looked like an angel, with dirt on her face,
And her yellow hair ribbon, she would have to replace,
Her dress was a mess, needless to say,
And her mother just shook her head in dismay.
But Ginger's impish grin revealed her delight,
For she had just whipped a boy in a fight.
But the ending is happy, oh just one thing more,
Today is her birthday, and Ginger is Four

Margaret Tackitt Benton (Ginger's Aunt)

You may sign the online register book at www.fossfuneralhome.com