Virginia Rose Heaton

HEATON, RUSSELL

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Date: 7/6/2014 at 21:49:50

Virginia Heaton

DAVENPORT -- Services for Virginia R. Heaton, of Davenport, will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation is 3-7 p.m. Wednesday at the mortuary. Mrs. Heaton died Friday, Dec. 14, 2001, at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus,

Davenport. Virginia Rose Russell was born on July 13, 1920, in Davenport. She graduated from Davenport High School in 1938. She married John W. Heaton on May 29, 1947, at St. John's United Methodist Church, Davenport. Mr. Heaton died in 1998. She began her 31-year civil service career in 1946 at the U.S. Weather Bureau, where she made live weather forecasts on local radio. One of the pioneers of women in management, she retired in 1977 as chief of office management and services at the Rock Island Arsenal. Mrs. Heaton received a special merit award from the Association of Records Managers and Administrators for saving millions of dollars by applying information technology to records management. She was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church, Davenport Policewives Auxiliary, Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society, American/Schleswig-Holstein Heritage Society, Women of the Moose, Quad-City Times Plus 60 Club and American Association of Retired Persons. She was a member of Business and Professional Women for more than 50 years. Virginia's hobbies include genealogy, travel, and her dog, Flash.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, John W. III and Pamela Heaton, and a grandson, John W. Heaton IV, all of Atlanta, Ga.

Source: The Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa 18 December 2001.