Virginia McDavitt
November 28, 1925 — July 18, 2017
McDavitt, Virginia Lucille, 91, born on November 28, 1925 to William J. McDavitt and Teresa Marie McGuigan in Millard, MO, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2017. She and her family lived at times in Kirksville, La Plata and Marceline Missouri. During WWII, she moved to Kansas City, MO and worked in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engine Plant. While in La Plata she met her future husband, David Lyle McDavitt. Like millions of women she enjoyed thinking that the critical engine parts she was making might well end up in her man's torpedo bomber. They were in fact, married very soon after he was released from the Navy. Right away, they were joined by three children and in 1959, they moved to Wichita, KS. She and "Lyle" started Admac Insurance Agency and Isle of The Palms Travel. Lucille continued to run Admac for years after his death in 1988. She was a member Southwest Presbyterian Church in Wichita, service for several years as a Deaconess. Her family and friends knew her as a kind-hearted and devout Christian woman. Her parents separated early in her youth, and her mother was forced to work long hours leaving, now fatherless children, at home in Lucille’s care. This instilled in her a life-long sense of responsibility. Her own children remember on cold winter mornings always having a hot breakfast and something hot and wonderful coming out of the oven as they were returning from school. Lucille loved to iron white shirts for "Lyle", taking good care of the home, her three children and whoever they brought home with them. She simply loved being a wife and a mother. Survivors include brother, Donald D. McGuigan; daughter, Denise McDavitt; sons, James (Sherry) McDavitt and David (Jan) McDavitt; grandchildren, Angela McDavitt Steele, Kristan McDavitt Lampe, Trenton McDavitt, Casey McDavitt and Kendra McDavitt Hughes; several nieces and nephews; and twelve great-grandchildren that she cherished and loved deeply.
Visitation
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Monday, July 24, 2017 Place: Broadway Mortuary1147 S. Broadway St., Wichita, KS 67211
Funeral Service
Time: 10:30am, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Place: Broadway Mortuary1147 S. Broadway St., Wichita, KS 67211
Burial
Time: 2:00pm, Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Place: La Plata CemeteryLa Plata, MO
Memorials
Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice313 S. Market St.
Wichita, KS 67202