Maude Wyllie Patten (1899-1969)

PATTEN, WYLLIE

Posted By: Colleen Brown (email)
Date: 5/6/2005 at 11:13:10

From the Adair County Free Press, Greenfield, Iowa, May 14, 1969

Maude Wyllie Patten

Maude I. Patten was born on a farm south of Bridgewater November 27,1899 and passed away April 29, 1969 at the Adair Community Hospital in Greenfield where she was cared for during her terminal illness.
Her life span covered a period of 69 years, five months and two days.
She attended grade school in Washinton township and the first two years of high school in Bridgewater.
She was graduated from Greenfield High School with the class of 1921.
She taught school in Cass county prior to her marriage to Oliver W. Patten, December 27, 1922.
The couple made their home for five years on a farm south of Bridgewater and continued farming in that same community until the spring of 1954 when they moved to Mount Etna, Iowa.
Here Mrs. Patten went back to her teaching profession and taught in Adams, Montgomery, and Cass counties for nine years.
When her husband's health failed she resigned from teaching to care for him, and she also worked for about a year for the Sister of the Rosary Hospital in Corning.
Mr. Patten passed away January 4, 1957 at the Greater Community Hospital in Creston.
Shortly after his death Mrs. Patten moved from Mount Etna to her father's home south of Bridgewater, and cared for him for eleven years until he passed away in September 1967.
In June 1968 she moved to Greenfield where she lived until entering the Adair County Memorial Hospital in November of that year.
She remained hospitalized until her death.
Mrs. Patten is survived by a son Kermit B. Patten of Orient, and his wife and seven children, several nieces and nephews and a number of other relatives,
She was preceded in death by her brother Clyde A. Wyllie, NOvember 12, 1944, her mother Mertie in June 1956, her husband Wendall on Jaunary 4, 1957 and her father Andrew G. Wyllie September 9, 1967.
She was a good neighbor, a fine homemaker, and will be missed deeply by many friends, relatives, and neighbors.