St. Clair County Obits

BETTY L. PATRICK

The Joplin Globe
17 May 2005
Betty L. Patrick was born June 27, 1920, in Osceola, Mo., to her parents Fred and Mary Brown. She was a graduate of Osceola High School, class of 1937 and a graduate of Kansas City Business College in 1939. She was a stenographer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1939 to 1945 working in Kansas
City, Mo., and Los Angeles, Calif.
She married Hartford L. Patrick on Sept. 23, 1945, in Osceola.
She and Hartford had a daughter, Pamela, who preceded her in death at the age of 5 years.
Other survivors include one daughter, Mary Patrick Seigfreid and husband, Paul, Mexico, Mo.; three sons,
John Patrick and wife, Nelda, Carthage, Mo., Paul Patrick and wife, Deborah, Aurora, Colo., and Philip
Patrick, Carthage; four grandchildren, Mathew Hartford Patrick, Carthage, Sarah Seigfreid, William Seigfreid and Robert Seigfreid, all of Mexico.
Betty was a Red Cross Volunteer for 35 years, a member of the Century Club, a sales associate for Neff's
Stores for 10 years, a Nearly New volunteer, a member of St. Martha's Guild, a Cub Scout Den Mother and a communicant of Grace Episcopal Church, Carthage.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, at Knell Mortuary, Carthage. Memorial services
will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday May 18, in Grace Episcopal Church, Carthage. Father Steve Wilson will
officiate. Burial will be in Osceola Cemetery, Osceola.
The family request that memorial gifts be made to Grace Episcopal Church, Carthage.