Diana and Don, I am so sorry to hear of your loss. So many of my main childhood memories (holiday family gatherings and countless horse shows) bring to mind your mom's warm smiles and hugs. She always shared her truly kind heart with all of us. My thoughts are with you and your families.

She was my best friend as I started married life. She and her husband Dick shared many precious moments throughout our life's with family and friends,especially Bill and Marilyn Hutton. The loss of our husbands sent me down another course, though Pat and I shared many special times through our love for Arabian horses. I cherish the two times I was able to visit Pattiann recently before her passing and will always remember her with love. Skeeter

Wanted to send our love and thoughts to you all. You are family - our pasts are entwined. I am fortunate that my memories are all of "Mom #2" - with the joy, rebellion, love and tears that go with family. Pat was so talented, had such a BIG heart (especially for the critters!), and was so very determined. She was not meant to be alone - Dick was a great foil for her, and I think his loss changed

Wanted to send our love and thoughts to you all. You are family - our pasts are entwined. I am fortunate that my memories are all of "Mom #2" - with the joy, rebellion, love and tears that go with family. Pat was so talented, had such a BIG heart (especially for the critters!), and was so very determined. She was not meant to be alone - Dick was a great foil for her, and I think his loss changed life irrevocably. They are now united again - I will think of that whenever I see shooting stars! ;-)
Love you all!
Mary

So saddened to hear my cousin, Patti Ann, has passed.
She and I and my sister, Judy, played together several summers from the time
we were about 9-10 yrs. old to about 13-14 yrs. old. Her parents, Opal & Henry
Fulks, would vacation from Illinois to visit with us and my parents, Ina and
Wendell Shue, at good ol' Burke, Va.
Later, while I attended The George Washington Univ. in Washington, DC, she
attended The University of Maryland at College Park, only a few miles away

So saddened to hear my cousin, Patti Ann, has passed.
She and I and my sister, Judy, played together several summers from the time
we were about 9-10 yrs. old to about 13-14 yrs. old. Her parents, Opal & Henry
Fulks, would vacation from Illinois to visit with us and my parents, Ina and
Wendell Shue, at good ol' Burke, Va.
Later, while I attended The George Washington Univ. in Washington, DC, she
attended The University of Maryland at College Park, only a few miles away so we visited with each other a few times. She sang in theatre there, also.
After that in the 1950's, I never saw her again as she got married and went on
with family as I did also.
I still have photos of Patti Ann and us.
We were the same age, she born on February 18 and me on April 19, 1935.
Patti Ann was one of God's blessings.

It was an honor to know Patti. We have so many delightful memories of her and Dick -- the Friday afternoon POET parties and weekend stay-overs with the whole “gang”! And all her animals. When we visited her recently in the hospital, the three of laughed so raucously remembering the old days that I feared we’d be asked by the staff to leave. Every Spring Break she welcomed my nieces for a day in the country with the pets and

It was an honor to know Patti. We have so many delightful memories of her and Dick -- the Friday afternoon POET parties and weekend stay-overs with the whole “gang”! And all her animals. When we visited her recently in the hospital, the three of laughed so raucously remembering the old days that I feared we’d be asked by the staff to leave. Every Spring Break she welcomed my nieces for a day in the country with the pets and horses – two city girls who would never have had the experience otherwise. She was never down -- always cheerful and so full of good will. God bless her family and a big thanks to them for sharing her with us. Nancy and Neal Bowers

So sorry for your loss Don. You will be in our thoughts and our prayers .Sincerely Deb and Greg Cox

Mary and I was sorry to hear about Patti's death. I was a colleague of her husband's for many years in the ISU English Dept. My wife and I knew Patti and her son with whom we spent many pleasant Friday evenings.

I will always hear Patti's adorable laugh in my mind when I drove up on my scooter one day. Her laugh and smile made the jaunt worth while. She was very interested in the scooter, and I almost had her convinced to take a short ride with me. We shared a love of all things four legged. My heart goes out to Don and Diana and your families. You are all in my heart and prayers.

DeeAnn Willett

You are in my thoughts and prayers, Life is not always easy but remember the good times. In Sympathy & Friendship

Diana, Don and families:

I am so very sorry to learn of your mother's passing. She was my favorite piano teacher, and what I learned from her I have used all of my life -- the love of music, playing it, singing, and just being part of it. There are few days when I sit down to the piano and don't think of her and thank her for that gift of music she gave me (I even still have a piece

Diana, Don and families:

I am so very sorry to learn of your mother's passing. She was my favorite piano teacher, and what I learned from her I have used all of my life -- the love of music, playing it, singing, and just being part of it. There are few days when I sit down to the piano and don't think of her and thank her for that gift of music she gave me (I even still have a piece of her sheet music that she gave me: Paderewsky's "Valse a l'Antique".

When I moved on to another piano teacher, she graciously took me back as her only student when that teacher was tragically killed in an automobile accident, until we could find another teacher for me; of the 12 years of piano instruction I took, I think 10 of them were with her.

I also remember her taking me to ride Yankee Clipper when she first got him back -- one of my two experiences on a horse, and BOY what that horse BIG!! I remember him trying to rub me off by edging closer and closer to the walls of the paddock we were in.

I used to run into her at Brekke's when I was buying cat food and litter, and she was buying horse feed, probably, and we stop and talk a bit.

I know all too well the impact of her passing at Christmas (my mother passed on last year at this time), and my heart and sympathies go out to all of you during this difficult time.