Her husband, James Watson, served as an assistant professor at the Escala Livre de Sociologia e Politica in São Paulo from 1944 to 1945, while Watson worked as a clerk in the Cultural Relations Department at the American Consulate General in São Paulo, Brazil. When returning from the field, Virginia and James Watson stopped at an archaeological site in the Ciudad Real del Guayra to conduct research, leading to Watson's publication, “Ciudad Real: A Guaraní-Spanish Site on the Alto Parana River,” in 1947.
