Dr. Virgil E Boatwright

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Obituary- Boatwright, Virgil 2

Top official at Basehor-Linwood
dies unexpectedly of heart attack

Virgil Boatwright, Basehor-Linwood superintendent of schools, died suddenly Monday of a heart attack. Quisenberry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie is in charge of the arrangements which are pending.

Mr. Boatwright was born in Valley Center where he completed school through the sixth grade. The family then moved to Sumner County near Anson. He graduated in 1945 from Wellington High School in the Anson area and joined the Navy for a year.

Mr. Boatwright began college at Kansas State University and transferred to Emporia State Teacher’s College when he was a junior. After he received his bachelor’s degree, he taught bacteriology at Emporia for a year while he completed his master’s degree.

He worked as a development engineer with Western Electric for 18 months in Chicago. He returned to Kansas in 1957 as a math and science teacher in the Washington School District in Kansas City, Kan. where he remained until 1967.

During his tenure in the Washington School District, Mr. Boatwright became the head of the science department and district administrator/coordinator of science and math. He received his Ph.D. in education during this time from the University of Kansas.

He became the director of the Midwest Institute of Business Administration, Eureka, Kan. for a brief time.

Mr. Boatwright was the superintendent of Kaw Valley USD 432 for ten years and of the school district at Russell for three years. He became the superintendent of Basehor-Linwood schools in 1983 and was currently active in that post.

He is survived by his wife, Donna, of the home; three sons, and a daughter.

Mr. Boatwright was active in area civic and community affairs. He served as the first secretary of the Basehor Chamber of Commerce and continued to be active on the board.

Memorials in his name to a scholarship fund in his honor are suggested. For more information, call Rev Dumler, 724-1396 in the afternoons.

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