Virginia Ethel (Newcomer) Frick

Virginia Ethel Frick, 99, of Powell, formerly of Upper Arlington, passed away Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at Morrow Manor in Chesterville. She was born November 12, 1924, in Ashland, Ohio, the daughter of Andy and Virgie Wise Newcomer. Virginia was a 1942 Jeromesville High School graduate who attended Ashland College.

She was an award-winning photographer, watercolor artist, and watercolor instructor. She was a member of the First Community Church, an active member of Vaud-Villities for 45 years, retired Executive Director of the Columbus Council of World Affairs, served on the Advisory Board of the Heinzerling Foundation, and Director of Public Relations and Communications. She was also a charter member of the Columbus Bar Association Auxiliary and Group Q of First Community Church. She was a past member of the Community Health and Nursing Service Advisory Board, Metropolitan Community Board, Thurber Circle, Columbus Metropolitan Club, Columbus Association of the Performing Arts, Children’s League, Junior Theater of the Arts, the Press Club, and Central Ohio Watercolor Society.

She is survived by her two sons, Bradley N. Frick and Randall J. Frick, her daughter, Diane Frick Shearer, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, James B. Frick, and two sisters, Pauline Mitchell and Katherine Eagle.

She will be buried at Jeromesville Cemetery at a later date.

Fickes Funeral Home in Jeromesville assisted the family with arrangements.

Condolences and memories of Virginia can be shared online at www.fickesfuneralhome.com. Contributions can be made in her memory to: First Community Camp Akita Give (shelbygiving.com), Ohio Health Hospice OhioHealth Hospice Giving - OhioHealth Foundation, and the Ohio State University Athletic Scholarship My gift details - Make your gift to The Ohio State University (osu.edu).

”I like music, sky and mountains, ripe olives, drums and fountains, books and trees, piano keys, and gay-with-color falling leaves. I like buildings, windows, roadways, funny jokes and good plays, sun and rain and snowy slush, but most of all, some paint, a brush. I like high heel shoes and chocolate candy, rainbows, clothes and beaches sandy, shrimp and wine and candlelight, a fireplace burning on a wintry night. I like quiet women, a little child, smiling people, an OSU football crowd, a game of cards, a royal flush, but most of all…some paint, a brush.”

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