Wyatt, Virginia Anne Pinkston Virginia Anne Pinkston Wyatt passed away on October 17, 2017. Virginia was born on March 21, 1928 to Ephraim and Frances Hanselman Pinkston on the family farm located on Cedar Creek near Cedar Point, Kansas. She was the youngest of the five children. She is preceded in death by her parents and all her siblings David Levin, Dorothy Elizabeth, Frederick Reeves, and William Charles. She lived on the family farm until her graduation from Cedar Point Rural High School in 1946. Virginia loved education and excelled in high school in not only academics but with her 4H projects. This earned her a scholarship to higher education at Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kansas. Enrolling at Kansas State in 1946 she began studies in home economics and music education. She participated in the choral music programs throughout her four years of college. In February 1947 she met and fell in love with Raymond Albert Wyatt while at K-State. They married on January 31, 1948 at Seven Dolars Catholic Church in Manhattan, KS. The marital union last 63 years until Raymond preceded her in death in March 2010. After graduating from Kansas State Agricultural College in 1950, she and Raymond began a family in a home at Wichita, Kansas to be near Ray's work with the Kansas Farm Bureau. From 1950 to 1955 their family grew to four children: Robert Scott, Virginia Rae, William Joseph, and Thomas Charles. In 1953, she and Ray moved to a farm near Saffordville, KS. As her children grew, they decided in 1959 to move to Emporia, KS for their children's educational needs. In June 1968, she and Ray moved from Emporia, KS to Tempe, Arizona for better job and educational opportunities for their family. The move to Arizona left family roots in Kansas, but trips back "home" and visits from family have always kept her family close. Virginia had very strong values in education for her children, as well as, herself. She furthered her education as a teacher by receiving a Master's Degree in Library of Science at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Music was an integral part of Virginia's life. She had an extensive musical background from being the organ director in church parishes, singing alto in choirs and creating a men's choir. Her love of music included teaching piano lessons, and becoming an active member in Sweet Adelines Barbershop Quartet and Chorus while she raised her teenagers in Tempe, Arizona from 1974 to 1978. This allowed her the opportunity to travel twice to Europe where she performed in London, as well as, visiting libraries and museums in Paris, Rome, Athens, and London. When Virginia and Ray moved to Tempe, Arizona, she played the organ for her current parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Tempe, Arizona from 1969 to 1980. Her teaching career spanned 30 years, from Matfield Green High School and Olpe High School in Kansas to 20 years at Camelback High School in Phoenix, Arizona, where she worked to computerize the book and card catalogue inventories for all the Phoenix Union High School District's libraries. After she retired she volunteered as the librarian for her parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe, Arizona. Virginia's love of family and education gave her the greatest reward of observing her four children become educated as productive citizens in the vocational fields of banking, teaching, medicine, and city administration. One of her most notable accomplishments included being given the All-American Woman Award in 1985 from the City of Tempe, AZ. She performed as the Republican Women's Rio Salado Chapter District Committee Woman, and, also served on the City of Tempe Library Committee to help establish the New Tempe City Library and Museum. In addition to setting a wonderful example of a good mother, wife, and citizen, Virginia taught those who loved her how to struggle honorably with the chronic pain from crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis, as well as, surviving the effects of a near fatal automobile accident in 1989. In last few years, she suffered from strokes and dementia. She never allowed her health issues to interfere with her family's needs or her own personal accomplishments. She will be remembered as a woman of strength, who loved her home and family above all. She is survived by her four children, Rob, Ginny, Bill, and Tom; a daughter-in-law, Patty Outlaw-Wyatt; five grandchildren, Rayanne (Chris) Marshall, Nicole (Brian) Link, Helen Wyatt, Elle Wyatt, Linda Wyatt; four step grandchildren, Patty (Joe Darin) Evans, William Evans, Pamela Ratliff, Paula (John) Meade; and five great grandchildren, Alexis Wyatt, Rylee Wyatt, Kayla Marshall, Kora Marshall, Lotus Marie Darin. She is remembered by her children and grandchildren as someone who always taught them something of life and challenged them to further their education and personal excellence in their lives. Virginia has requested that memorial donations can be given to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. A viewing will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 from 5:00pm to 8:00 PM, with a reading of the Holy Rosary at 7:00 PM at Richardson Funeral Home, 2621 South Rural Road, Tempe, Arizona. Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 11:00 AM at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, 2121 South Rural Road, Tempe, Arizona. Burial will immediately follow at Queen of Heaven. Cemetery, 1500 East Baseline Road, Mesa, Arizona. Richardson Funeral Home, Tempe, Arizona is compassionately serving the family.