Patrick, Joseph L. – 1924-2009

BROCK, CAIRNEY, HOLLAND, IVERSEN, LAGENFELD, PATRICK, PHILIPPSON, SCHECHINGER, WARMING

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/9/2016 at 10:22:14

Joseph Patrick of Omaha, Nebraska, died on June 4, 2009 at Skaggs Hospital in Branson, Missouri at the age of 84. There were military honors by U.S. Navy and Millard AL 374 & VFW 8334.
Joseph L. Patrick, was born in Des Moines, Iowa on September 26, 1924, as an only child to Joseph and Delores (Brock) Philippson. He attended Des Moines North High School.
Joe was a World War II veteran and flew Navy Air Corps torpedo bombers off aircraft carriers from 1942 through 1946. In 1950, Joe graduated from Des Moines’ Drake University where he majored in broadcast journalism. He played defensive end on Drakes football team for four sessions. Joe became a carrier pilot for Iowa Air National Guard during this time.
In 1951, Joe and his wife Evelyn moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he got a job at KFVD radio station. Joe and Evelyn raised four sons before her death in 1980. Joe worked at KIOA radio station in Des Moines, Iowa for two years as a morning disc jockey, a high school football game broadcaster and the voice of Des Moines’ minor league-baseball team. In 1954, he did stints in Keokuk and Waterloo, Iowa. In 1955 he became a sportscaster for KFAB for the University of Nebraska Husker football games that lasted for 25 years and 26 years as the play-by-play man for Creighton University basketball. He worked for KMTV as a sportscaster and owned and hosted the popular weekly TV program called “Bowling at Leisure Lanes”.
Joe broadcasted for Omaha Knights Hockey, and was host of the Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne televisions shows. He was “the voice” of Sunset Speedway for three years and was featured on Aksarben horse racing prediction show. He was the voice-over for Union Pacific Railroad and numerous TV and radio commercials for many years. In 1959, Joe was named Nebraska Sportscaster of the year.
Joe married Judy Schechinger in 1987. She is a tour guide in Branson, Missouri, and this is where Joe spent his time after his retirement in 2004.
Besides his 51 years in broadcasting, Joe enjoyed and spent time fishing, bowling, golfing, snow skiing, listening to his Big Band album collection, playing the piano and singing and dancing, playing poker and bridge, writing poems and doing crossword puzzles. Joe enjoyed visiting his family members and playing with his grandchildren.
Joe was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Evelyn.
Survivors include his wife, Judy of Branson, Missouri, his sons Joe Philippson and his wife, Julie of Monroe, Iowa, David and his wife, Bobbie of Volga, South Dakota; Dan and his wife Mary Ellen of Lincoln, Nebraska, Paul and his wife, Nikki of Omaha, Nebraska and Philip of Omaha, Nebraska; step-children, Michael Schechinger and his wife Karen of Grimes, Iowa; Susan Schechinger of Kirkman, Iowa; Bonnie Cairney and her husband Tony of Westphalia, Iowa; Bob Schechinger and his wife Carol of Treynor, Iowa; Roger Schechinger of Menifee, California; Sherrie Holland and her husband, Steve of Glenwood, Iowa; 26 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Ronald Lagenfeld and his wife Connie of Ute, Iowa; sister-in-laws, Diann Iversen of Moorhead, Iowa and Donna Warming of Minneapolis, Minnesota and other relatives and many friends.
Source: Monroe Legacy; 18 June 2009