M. Virginia Irvine, the daughter of Robert Samuel and Virginia Lucille (Woodhouse) Irvine, was born January 30, 1921, in Tarkio, Missouri.

She attended Tarkio High School, graduating in 1938. Virginia then attended Tarkio College for two years, where she later received her Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. She was employed at Commerce Bank in Kansas City and later with the New England Life Insurance Company, where she worked many years as a financial planner. Her business success was impressive in a time when not many women were in the Insurance industry. She was well respected by her peers and set standards within the industry in Kansas City. One of her favorite fun early jobs was working part time at the Plaza Theater in Kansas City. She was a member of the Soroptimist Club.

Virginia enjoyed cooking and entertaining. She particularly loved dancing and participated in ballroom dancing classes for many years. Travel was another love. She especially treasured her memories of her trip to the Holy Land. She traveled with her parents to California and Hawaii and later she and her father took an exciting cruise to Alaska. After Virginia’s retirement from her career life, she dedicated herself to her church. A devout Catholic, she spent much time in intercessory prayer and ministering to many people in need.

Virginia passed away March 18, 2008 at the Sweet Life Memory Care Center in Shawnee, Kansas at the age of 87 years.

Virginia is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her brothers Stanley Irvine and his wife Ruth, St. Joseph, Missouri and Maurice Irvine and his wife Margaret, Tarkio; nieces and nephews, Sue and Gary Richard, Folsom, California, Patty and Sheldon Davis, Fairfax, Missouri, Steve and Eileen Irvine, Tarkio, Larry Irvine and Jeannine Broermann, Tarkio, Regena Irvine, Westwood, Kansas; grand nieces and nephews, Derek and Dawn Davis, Fairfax, Courtney Davis, Fairfax, Lance Irvine, Tarkio, Stephanie Irvine and Chuck Queen, Overland Park, Kansas, Chance and Nicole Irvine, Sophia and Isabella, Omaha, Nebraska.

Services: Thusday, March 20, 2008, 10:30 am, Davis Funeral Home, Tarkio.
Interment: Home Cemetery, Tarkio.
The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:20 prior to the service.
Memorials: Home Cemetery, Tarkio.
Services are under the direction of Davis Funeral Home, Tarkio.