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First twins born at St. Cloud Hospital turn 90

ST. CLOUD (AP) — The first twins to be born at St. Cloud Hospital are celebrating their 90th birthday.

The births of Virgil and his sister Virginia “Ginny” Egerman on Aug. 20, 1928, marked the hospital’s first delivery of twins, the Saint Cloud Times reported. The Benedictine sisters who founded and originally ran St. Cloud Hospital wanted to name the twins Bernadine and Bernard because they were born on the feast day of St. Bernard.

But their parents had already settled on Virgil and Virginia. The pair celebrated their 90-year milestone last weekend with family and friends.

The twins, among eight children, were visited by their five living siblings on their special day.

Ginny, now Virginia Egerman Symons, was the family’s first girl. Ginny and Virgil Egerman didn’t make a big deal about being twins.

“I had my friends, he had his,” Ginny Egerman said. “I think our mom and dad made a bigger deal out of us as twins than we did.”

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