Virginia "Jima" Danielson

Virginia 'Jima' Danielson, 92, a Manhattan resident since 1946, passed away Thursday, July 12th, at Stoneybrook Retirement Community. She was retired from civil service at Ft. Riley. Kathryn Virginia Lynch was born in Honolulu, on January 14, 1920, the daughter of the late Lindon Lamar and Genevieve Day (Springstun) Lynch. She graduated from the Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, and Berkeley Business College, Berkeley, CA. She also attended the University of Hawaii and the University of Oregon. On Feb. 19, 1944 at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Honolulu, she married Durward 'Danny' C. Danielson of Clyde, Kansas. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, the Domestic Science Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Gamma Phi Beta, for which she was the founding alumna of the Beta Upsilon chapter at Kansas State University in 1957. Lodge affiliations were especially meaningful to her. She was a member of the Daughters of the Nile and a Past President of the Social Order of the Beauceaunt; a past Worthy Matron and more than 50-year member of Manhattan Chapter #209 Order of the Eastern Star, and Past Grand Chaplain of Kansas's state Eastern Star organization. Jima is survived by two daughters, Claire Lamar Denlea, of Phoenix, AZ; Julie Malia (Tom) O'Connell, of Tuscaloosa, AL; a son, Eric Lindon (Anne Phillips) Danielson, of Manhattan; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, a son, Jeffrey Hobert Danielson, and a sister, Patty Hoot. Friends are also invited to call from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wed, July17 at Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home & Cremation. Funeral services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 19th, with burial to follow at Sunrise Cemetery in Manhattan. The family encourages donations in Jima's memory to the T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter, 605 Levee Drive, Manhattan, or the Kansas Masonic Home, 401 S. Seneca Wichita, KS 67213.