- Date Of Birth: May 27, 1917
- Date Of Death: January 29, 2014
- State: Missouri
Virginia Daugherty Schoonover
“When tomorrow starts without me, don’t think we are far apart, for every time you think of me I’m right here in your heart.”
Virginia Alice Daugherty Schoonover died on January 29, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Virginia was born on May 27, 1917 in Kampesha, South Dakota to George and Alice Kendall. A few years later her family moved to Lexington, Missouri, where she attended primary school. She graduated from high school in West Plains, Missouri, in 1935.
Virginia married Frank Daugherty on October 15, 1936. Frank preceded her in death from Lou Gehrig’s disease on August 23, 1974. In 1980, she married Rex Schoonover who preceded her in death in 1990.
Frank and Virginia Daugherty lived in West Plains until WWII when they moved to Portland, Oregon, where Frank worked in the shipyards building aircraft carriers. Most of the aircraft carriers he worked on were being built for the British Navy. In April 1946, they moved to Hermann, a German and winemaking community in central Missouri, and opened Daugherty’s Shoe Store. During the 27 years Daugherty’s Shoe Store operated in Hermann, Virginia and Frank were active in the business community participating in the Chamber of Commerce, serving as charter members of Historic Hermann, founding members of Loutre Shore Country Club and were active in the early years of the Maifest. In 1973, they sold Daugherty’s Shoe Store.
In addition to her work in the shoe store, Virginia was active in school organizations while her children were in school (25 years). She served as a volunteer for lunch money collection during her retirement years, delivered Meals on Wheels, worked in the Hospital auxiliary and at the Hermann Museum in the German Schoolhouse. She was also a Cub Scout den Mother and Brownie home leader, Secretary of the Hermann High Band Parents and PTA. Other community activities included memberships in House and Hobby, the Women’s Federated club, and the Republican Club.
As a member of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, her activities included Sunday school teacher, officer in the Women’s Guild and leader in church’s quilting group.
Her children and grandchildren remember her as a loving, caring person who made iced Christmas cookies, a fabulous apple pie and, if you needed her help with anything, she was there in an instant with a kind word and a “don’t worry” we will get it done attitude.
Three sisters, Geneva Evans, Pearle Armstrong and Erna Coen, one brother, George Kendall, her first husband, Frank Daugherty and her second husband, Rex Schoonover, preceded her in death.
She is survived by one brother and two sisters, Kenneth Kendall, Helen Boyles, Amy Crossley, and by two children — Rosetta Simmons of Hermann and Tucson, Arizona, and Jay Daugherty, of Kansas City, three grandchildren — Rex Simmons, Evan Daugherty, Elizabeth Daugherty and one great-grandchild — Melody Rose Simmons.
