Patricia Jean Bish, 11 May 1928 – 26 Jul 2012

BISH, MCCAY, SAMPSON, BECKMAN, BAETHKE, GIBSON, OLSON, FLEMING

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 9/24/2012 at 16:39:41

Funeral services for Patricia J. Bish, 84, North English, formerly of Davenport, were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at Powell Funeral Home, North English.She died Thursday, July 26, 2012, at the English Valley Care Center, North English.

Hospice chaplain Rebecca Carver officiated at the service.

Burial was in Sorden Cemetery, rural Keswick.
A general memorial fund has been established.

Messages and tributes may be left at www.powellfuneralhomes.com.

Patricia Jean Bish was born May 11, 1928, in Keswick, the daughter of Alanson Calvin and Frances Lavina (Sampson) McCay. She graduated from Keswick High School and the University of Iowa with a degree in music.

She married Joseph M. Bish June 29, 1952, in Keswick. The couple lived in Davenport where she taught music in the Davenport school system for many years.

In 2003 she moved to Highland Ridge, Williamsburg, and later transferred to the English Valley Care Center, North English.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Davenport, and Delta Kappa Gamma. She was a huge Iowa Hawkeye fan and enjoyed supporting her great-nieces and -nephews and great-great-nieces and -nephews in their activities, playing the piano and singing.

Bish is survived by three nephews, Mark and Lizz (Beckman) Baethke, Urbandale; Larry and Denise (Gibson) Baethke, Williamsburg, and Greg and Dawnetta (Olson) Baethke, Spencer; niece-in-law Karen (Fleming) Baethke, St. Charles; 14 great-nieces and great-nephews, and 10 great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, in 2002; her parents; one sister, Phyllis Baethke; one nephew, Gene Baethke, and an aunt, Elsie Sampson.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries, 02 Aug 2012, pg 9
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