PATRICIA ANN SHUSTER

Patty Patton

IN MEMORY ...

22 July 22 1947 - 4 September 1998
Cancer

From Anne Lackey Goff:  Patti's husband's name is David Patton (what a great guy, too).  She had three children, Jill, Jeremy and Jaime Johnson and one grandson, Allen Alexander.  I could send you some stuff from her memorial service , which was wonderful....  We would not like the photos from when she was so sick, but I'll try to find a decent one or her and her husband.  She lived in Orlando since about 1985 when she married David (kids from first husband). 

She was a social worker/case worker in Illinois and had a home day care business and craft business in Florida.  She died of colon cancer about 2 years after she was diagnosed.  We had visited back and forth over the years, but after she got sick I went over there a lot to see her -- about once a month I'd go for a day visit.  Her illness brought several of us back together after a number of years -- Suzanne Drach Roberts, Nancy Simpkins Whalen, Mary Ellen Baird Shaw, Nancy Russell Miller.

We gathered in Florida a couple of times a year to see Patti while she was ill and had the time of our lives getting to know each other all over again!  We all celebrated our 50th birthday party with a cake with 50 candles in May 1997.  I'll see if I can find that photo.  Her mother is still in Athens, Dorothye Shuster; and her sister Jean lives in Perrysburg.

2002