Dec. 13, 1941 – Feb. 13, 2022
GAMBIER – Leslie Lynn Shutt was born on Dec. 13, 1941 to Anne Kelly Moran and Raymond Moran in Richmond, Virginia, and she remained a loyal Virginian all of her life. Her mother died in 1956, and her father in 2002, both in Richmond. She was a graduate of Douglas Southall Freeman High School in Richmond and attended Virginia Commonwealth University, also in Richmond, as an art major.
In 1962 she married James Hanshaw, of West Virginia and in 1964 she had Whitt Talmadge Hanshaw, born in New Orleans, LA, now of Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 1970 Doub Gil-Kelly Hanshaw, born in Culpeper, VA, now of Venice, California. In 1982 she married Timothy Baker Shutt, and in 1985 they had Pruitt Streeter Baker Shutt McCoy, born in Charlottesville, VA, now of Mount Vernon. From her marriage to her death, she lived for forty happy years with her husband, Dr. Shutt, first in Charlottesville, then, for the past thirty-six years in Mount Vernon and Gambier, Ohio, where Dr. Shutt retired in 2021 as a Professor of Humanities at Kenyon College.
She was a gifted artist and an equally gifted mechanic, able to fix anything, and she was deeply kind and gentle, a profound lover of animals as well as of people, creative in all she did, with an understated and puckish sense of humor. She founded or co-funded two business ventures, Classic Monograms and The Lacrosse Crest on which she worked for nearly twenty years.
She also had a gift for friendship, noteworthy friends including Blanche Veronica (Roni) Mulligan, now of Bradenton, Florida, and Eleanor and Betty George, and Kathryn Edwards of Mount Vernon. She is survived by her sister, Mary Page, her children, Whitt, Doub, and Pruitt, four grandchildren, Asa and Austin Mahaffey of Venice, California, and Dash and Whitt McCoy of Mount Vernon, and her long-time husband Timothy Baker-Shutt.
Contributions may be sent to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or to any similar organization.
A celebration of life service will be held at a later date.
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