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Obituary- Boatwright, Virgil 3

DR. VIRGIL E. BOATWRIGHT

Tonganoxie - Dr. Virgil E. Boatwright, 58, Route 3, Tonganoxie, died Monday, July 28, at a Kansas City, Kan., hospital after he suffered a heart attack.

Dr. Boatwright was superintendent of Basehor-Linwood Unified School District the past two years. He previously was superintendent of schools at St. Marys and Russell.

He had taught in high schools in Smith Center, Shawnee Mission district and Washington district in Kansas City. He also was science and mathematics coordinator in the Washington district schools. He was president of Midwest Institute at Eureka.

He was a Navy veteran of World War II.

He was born Aug. 14, 1927, at Valley Center, the son of Norval and Dessie Merrifield Boatwright. He was graduated from Emporia State Teachers College with bachelor, master and specialist degrees and received his doctorate in education administration from the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

Dr. Boatwright was a member and deacon of Whitechurch Christian Church in the Whitechurch community near Kansas City, Kan. He was a 4-H Club leader in Greenwood and Wyandotte counties and a Boy Scout committeeman.

He was a member of the Lions Club at Delia, St. Marys Chamber of Commerce, and Eureka Chamber of Commerce board of directors. He was a former Kiwanis Club officer and member of the Wyandotte County Extension Council board of directors.

He also was a member of the Kansas Association of School Administrators, United School Administrators of Kansas, Kansas Association of Biology Teachers of which he was president in 1963 and 1967, and the National Science Teachers Association.

Dr. Boatwright was a member of the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science, regional representative of Phi Delta Kappa honorary society in education, member of the audit committee of the Kansas Association of School Administrators, and a member of the American Association for Higher Education Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and Kansas Academy of Science.

He was married to Donna J. McVaugh Dec. 28, 1947, at Riley. She survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Gray, Fort Worth, Texas; three sons, Bruce Boatwright, Albuquerque, N.M., and Theodore Boatwright and Douglas Boatwright, both of Wamego; a sister, Mrs. Marjorie Evans, Hays; two brothers, Gerald Boatwright, Annandale, Va., and Donald Boatwright, Danbury, Conn.; and 10 grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Baptist Church in Basehor. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in Riley Cemetery at Riley. Mr. Boatwright will like in state from 3 until 8 p.m. today at Quisenberry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dr. Virgil Boatwright Science Scholarship Fund and sent in care of the funeral home.

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