Virginia Lee Colburn, 75, formerly of Warsaw, died April 24, 2015, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

She was born to Cleaveland and Virginia Colburn. She was married to S.Z. “Hank” Haidri, who preceded her in death. She worked for many years as director of youth services and community programs for Warsaw Community Public Library, and loved giving programs for youth and adults, not only at the library but also at senior centers and other locations throughout the community.

Before retiring and moving to Tennessee, she was an active member of Warsaw Bible Church, serving as an Awana leader, Sunday school teacher, and in many other ways.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Douglass College and received her master’s degree in library science from Rutgers University. She loved books and enjoyed being a librarian for over 40 years. Prior to her work at WCPL, she began her career as a corporate librarian for a pharmaceutical company, worked at the Mamaroneck, N.Y., Public Library, and was director of the Elmwood Park Public Library in N.J. for 19 years.

She had many interests, especially music, and over the years sang in several choirs and vocal groups. Highlights of her college choir years included singing at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Her home in Warsaw, just like her home every place she lived, was open to neighborhood children as a place that they could visit on the way home after school or on summer days, where they could do arts and crafts projects, play games, tell stories, learn to play piano, and keep their minds active with fun and educational activities. These children enriched her life wand likewise had theirs enriched by her.

She had a variety of avocations over the years: serving as a lay speaker; writing a lighthearted newspaper column about books and reading; researching and publishing a recipe book featuring ingredients grown in the Warsaw Biblical Garden; collecting postcards and bells from all over the world; and creating notebooks full of colorful pictures for several nursing homes to use in their therapy rooms to help residents reminisce and recollect.

Surviving is her son: Christopher (Vicki) Haidri, Harriman, Tenn.; two sisters: Janet Colburn, Ellenville, N.Y.; and Nancy Colburn, San Diego, Calif.; and treasured nephews and cousins. She was also preceded in death by her father: Cleaveland Colburn; and her mother: Virginia Colburn Bahrs Smith.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 20, at First United Methodist Church, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Calling is from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. also at the church.

Memorials to the Warsaw Bible Church building fund, Warsaw.