Shawnee resident Virginia Lee Eddings, 78, died Friday, March 25, in Shawnee.

She was born April 26, 1926, in Asher to Warren and Jennie (Decker) Sullivan.

She attended Cloverdale School and graduated in 1944 from Saint Louis High School. A longtime resident of Pottawatomie County, she lived in Shawnee for 57 years. She was the owner/operator of the Snowboy Snowcone Stand on South Beard for 40 years. Prior to that, she had worked at Sylvania and also briefly at Douglas Aircraft at the end of World War II.

She married her high school sweetheart, Dorsey Dohn Crouse, Sept. 9, 1944, in Saint Louis. They made their home in Monahans, Texas, until Dorsey's death in 1948.

She married George W. Eddings Jr., in Seminole on Jan. 15, 1949, and made their home in Shawnee. They divorced in 1970.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; her brother, Douglas Eugene Sullivan, and her daughter, Grace Charlene Kemper.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Karen Smith-McCullar and Olen McCullar of Seminole; daughter, Jana Blalock of Shawnee; grandchildren, LaDonna and Rusty McAlvain, Brandon Smith, Brent and Lesa Johnson, Danielle Hastings, and Jennifer Blalock; seven great-grandchildren; her brother, Don Sullivan of Shawnee, and brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Ellie Sullivan of Taft, Calif.

Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Walker Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Leroy Kerbo officiating. Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in Pottawatomie County.

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