Jim & Toni Piggott

Toni and Jim both grew up in Northern Virginia, but did not know one another until they met on a blind date. They found that they had in common a love of the outdoors, and an appreciation of the American West. Then, after they were married they spent many vacations in Wyoming.

One summer while in college at the American University. Toni cycled through Europe, and other summers she was a waitress in Yellowstone Park.

 Between VMI and UVA Medical School, Jim was a smokejumper for two summers in Montana. After Medical School and a residency at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco, he was at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. While there he was on assignment for six months in Zaire to study tropical disease.

When Jim got out of the Army in 1969, he and Toni moved to Lynchburg where he practiced pathology until 2000. Toni was very active in the Lynchburg Garden Club. Both worked regularly in their yard and gardens around their home on Old Trents Ferry Road.

They have two sons and a daughter, six grandchildren, and one great-grandson.