Editing Virginia Apgar (section)

== Personal life ==

[[File:An expert on the violin, Dr. Apgar examines an instrument fashioned from an old telephone shelf. LCCN2002712241.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Virginia Apgar with self-made violin (60s)]]
Throughout her career, Apgar maintained that "women are liberated from the time they leave the womb" and that being female had not imposed significant limitations on her medical career. She avoided women's organizations and causes, for the most part. Though she sometimes privately expressed her frustration with sex inequalities (especially in the matter of salaries), she worked around these by consistently pushing into new fields where there was room to exercise her considerable energy and abilities.<ref name=":1" />

Music was an integral part of family life, with frequent family music sessions.<ref name=":0" /> Apgar played the violin and her brother played piano and organ.<ref name=":0" /> She traveled with her violin, often playing in amateur chamber [[quartets]] wherever she happened to be. During the 1950s, a friend introduced her to instrument-making, and together they made two violins, a viola and a cello. She was an enthusiastic gardener and enjoyed fly-fishing, golfing and stamp collecting. In her fifties, Apgar started taking flying lessons, stating that her goal was to someday fly under New York's [[George Washington Bridge]].<ref name=":1" />

=== Death ===

Apgar never married or had children and died of [[cirrhosis]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers |last1=Scrivener |first1=Laurie |last2=Barnes|first2=J. Suzanne|publisher=Oryx Press|year=2002|isbn=978-1-57356-219-5|location=Westport, CT|pages=6–7}}</ref> on August 7, 1974, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She is buried at [[Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey)|Fairview Cemetery]] in Westfield.