Connie Patterson (1920 - 2003)

PATTERSON, ASHLEY, HALL, STATON, DENNY

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 9/17/2011 at 00:02:21

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Connie Patterson
Connie Patterson, daughter of George Ashley and Mary Elizabeth Hall Ashley, was born April 8, 1920, in Derbyshire, England and died March 27, 2003, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. She was 82.

She grew up and completed her formal education in Derbyshire. She met Lester Patterson while he was stationed overseas serving in the Army during World War II. They were married Nov. 4, 1944, at St. Peters Cathedral in England. They became the parents of three children, Mary, Thomas and Michael. After Mr. Patterson was discharged from the service, He returned to the United States in 1945 and Mrs. Patterson joined him in the spring of 1946.

Mr. and Mrs. Patterson lived in Decatur, Ill., where she worked at Dutch Mills candy store while he attended electronics school. They returned to the family farm in Clarke County in 1950 due to the ill health of his father. After his father died they made the move permanent and spent the rest of their married life on the farm.

Mrs. Patterson loved the farm and being outdoors. She took great joy in the animals on the farm and could always be counted on to mother the runt of the litters. She enjoyed quilting and knitting, gardening and her incredible variety of plants and flowers. She took great pride in being a citizen of the United States.

She was a member of the First Christian Church in Osceola and was a member of the Ophir Chapter No. 276 of the Order of the Eastern Star for more than 50 years. She was also a long time member of the neighborhood Smile A While Club.

Mrs. Patterson was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Elsie, Mary and Joyce; a brother Ernest and a brother-in-law, Ron Staton.

She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Mary Denny and her husband, Howard Denny, of Osceola and two sons Thomas Patterson and his wife, Sharon Patterson and Micahel Patterson and his wife, Donna Patterson, all of Osceola; nine grandchildren, Matthew Denney of Davis City, Trenton Denney, Bernie Denney, Tevyn Denney, Amantha Denney, Brandon Patterson and Tyler Patterson, all of Osceola, Ashley Denney of Omaha, Neb. and Brent Patterson of Indianola; two great-grandsons; nieces; nephews; and cousins still in England; and a host of friends at home and abroad.

A celebration of life for Mrs. Patterson was April 1 at the First Christian Church in Osceola, the Rev. Phil Coe officiating. Organist Virginia Reynolds accompanied Emil Rinderspacher as he sang Abide With Me.

Honorary bearers were Matthew Denney, Trenton Denney, Brent Patterson, Brandon Patterson, Tyler Patterson and Bernie Denney. Eastern Star services were by Ophir Chapter No. 267. Interment of the cremains will be in Freemont Cemetery in Clarke County at a later date.

Arrangements were by Kale Funeral Homes In Osceola and Truro.