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Patricia Norwood Obituary
Patti Par Norwood died Oct. 4, 2012. Born Feb. 28, 1949 in Fort Riley, Kansas, to Lt. Patrick and Vicki Parlavecchia. She graduated from Shorecrest High in 1967, and later earned degrees in horticulture and broadcasting. In 1974, she joined 50,000 watt KGA in Spokane WA, as "Peppermint Patty" on the all-night trucker show, which broadcast to truckers from Mexico to Canada. In 1977 she joined KHQ TV& Radio as a weather reporter and DJ. In 1979 she joined 94.1 KMPS and remained at the station well into the 1990's. Most notably as a part of the "Phil, Don & Patti show" with Phil Harper and Don Riggs, and as a part of the Waking Crew with Ichabod Caine.
Patti also devoted her time to the ARC of King County, as a fierce advocate for the disabled. She was also an avid, lifelong gardener and lover of animals. Mother to Alexis Victoria and James Patrick. She is preceded in death by her father, Col. Patrick Par, and her brother Michael Lewis Par. She is survived by her mother Vicki Par, sisters Pamela Tomczak and Penny Barrows, and her children. Donations to the ARC of King County.
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Big ED Dunaway KGA KMPS
October 1, 2025
Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. Remembering you and your loved one today and always.
Pamela Brosvik
October 1, 2025
Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. Remembering you and your loved one today and always. Patty was a good neighbor. I didnt know her well but I do remember her and her son from neighborhood meetings. Best wishes to all of you.
Jamie Norwood
May 23, 2025
This is the old house
Jamie Norwood
May 22, 2025
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Big ED Dunaway KGA KMPS
October 4, 2024
Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. Remembering you and your loved one today and always.
BIG ED
Nancy Jones
October 1, 2024
Patricia I miss you still to this day! I am so glad I got to know you and your son before you were called home! I hope you are dancing and singing up there in heaven! Love you so much!
Big ED Dunaway KGA KMPS
January 28, 2024
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.
Jamie Norwood
August 30, 2023
I miss my mom a lot
Eddie L Dunaway
October 1, 2021
Miss YOU Patti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobbie (Nichols) McManis
October 20, 2020
I just happened to be reminiscing about my childhood and happened to think of a Pat Parlavecchia that I knew when I lived in Capehart housing at Luke AFB. We were best friends then although we went to different schools. She was going to a Catholic school at the time. I don't know if this is the same Pat but the age is right and her dad was military. If it is my friend, I'm so sorry to hear of her passing and that I never got to reconnect with her over the years. That seems to happen in military families. I know I have at least 1 picture of her, maybe more if anyone is interested. She sounds like she was a wonderful person and very loved.
Bobbie (Nichols) McManis
Saskia Davis
March 1, 2015
Warm, full of heart, genuine, courageous, creative, caring, hard working, friendly, practical, Patti was an inspiration to me.
At heart, she was a pioneer. She loved her Shoreline neighborhood. As she was losing her sight, with her son still in her care, she very much wanted to be able to stay in the neighborhood as a tenant in an apartment on the unused portion of the Fircrest School campus. Her hope was that, living there, her "differently abled"son might be availed of Fircrest's medical resources. However, despite her former connection to the ARC and her request for their help toward that end, the ARC continued to oppose any such use of the property.
Had Patti been able to accomplish such reasonable and worthwhile use of fallow resources, she would have pioneered a breakthrough to opposition to using those portions of the Fircrest property for non-Fircrest School residents with disabilities. Many families would have benefited.
Although Patti's opportunity to be the first has passed, real potential remains for her dreams for such compatible development of the property + medical outreach. It will be a fitting legacy to her if it ever becomes reality.
Jamie Norwood
February 28, 2015
Happy birthday mom for 66 years
Jamie Norwood
February 28, 2014
Happy birthday mom from your son Jamie Norwood And alexis norwood and your sisters aunt penny aunt pam aunt Judy And your Mother Vicki and Your Brother Michael and Your Friends From Kmps Phil Harper and Don Riggis And ichabod Caine and Your friends from high school
Janet Way
November 1, 2013
We all want to continue to remember Patti Par Norwood as an important member of our Shoreline community. Hope folks will contribute to keep Patti's name in this guest book.
jamie norwood
April 17, 2013
Sometimes we go to belleuve Washington To see the par family and we see lola par sometimes and then we have a bbq at aunt pennys house sometimes and then sometime our friend ron dale drives us to aunt pennys house sometimes and then we get food and sit down and talk to the par family and visit and leave and go back home and I go to the store for my mom Patricia J? Norwood I Get her wine because she asked for it and I get the others on the shopping list and then I get out my credit card and pay it and go home and say I get my cell phone is 206-387-9099 and said I am on my way home mom now mom and then I walked home from qfc and I put my moms wine away and I put away the stuff on the shopping list I got at qfc
M M
March 8, 2013
I'm sorry I did'nt get to say goodbye, I did'nt know, so much left unsaid, God has special plans for Patti, she will always be in my mind and my prayers. She was always the smiling flower of spring, God Bless.
Janet Wilson
March 2, 2013
Worked with Patti at KMPS when I first moved to Seattle. She was a lovely, talented, fun and generous spirit. Was glad to see her again at the KMPS reunion dinner many years later. My prayers to her family.
Vicki Par
February 28, 2013
On this anniversary of your birth I keep thinking of that day that you became my very own baby. I miss you now but I hope you are having a great time with Daddy and Michael. Happy Birthdy baby. I love you.....Mother
Pamela Tomczak
February 28, 2013
Sister, You would have been 64 today. You will be missed at the Feb/March birthday party tomorrow but we will be together and your lovely daughter is cooking. We will toast you and hope that you're enjoying some heavenly cake.
Jamie Norwood
February 12, 2013
My Mom Likes Little House And My Mom Likes Mama Cass Eillott And My Mom Likes James Taylor And My Mom She Gets Sick A Lot And Then My Mom Drinks Beer In The Summer Time With her Friend Cindy Farrar And Then My Mom Drinks Wine And My Mom Goes To The Blind School My Mom Has Friends Ken Cindy Farrar Ron Dale And Connie And Then My Mom Wrote Stories On The COMPUTER A Lot My Mom Likes Susan Boyle A Lot Sometimes My Mom Goes To Church A Lot And Then On Wednesday Nights My Mom Works For Poppy Cafe In Seattle Washington And Then My Mom Takes A Shower To Get Ready For Church On Sunday Morning's And Then My Mom Listen To John Tesh On Sunday Morning's
Nancy Jones
November 28, 2012
Patti if i would of only known that time was ending for you i would of kept in better contact with you. I miss you alot and will look forward to seeing you again someday but until then my friend as you always said rest in peace. my love goes out to the family and jamie. take care and much love. Nancy Jones Seattle Wa.
Rose Luskin
November 19, 2012
I will always cherish the memories of spending time with Patti and her family. her daughter and I were very close in our childhood. Her beautiful gardens and her storytelling with stay with me forever.
Don Riggs
October 20, 2012
She was my "office wife" broadcast partner for many years, the best a person could hope for. It's nice to think she's rejoined Phil Harper on heavenly air. It'll be great listening.
Jonnie O
October 17, 2012
Known as "Peppermint Patti" Patti Parr, and I worked radio at KGA 1974-1975. Peppermint Patti ran the all night trucker show. The world is a better place because of her. She was one of the Best! She's spinning Country with the Angels Now! God Bless Her and God Speed! Love, Jonnie O
October 17, 2012
Patti, I already miss your amazing wit and energy. Paul Procctor
Janet Way
October 16, 2012
I will miss Patti very much. She was such a good citizen of Shoreline and cared so much about the world, the environment, the community and her family.
Connie Collings
October 15, 2012
My dear friend, I had no idea how ill you were, Funny how we spent the last year sharing thoughts, ideas, knowledge and experiences, we laughed at the challenges life brings and talked at length of the future ahead. Not a clue that it was almost at the end.
Still I sit in awe, I wasn't prepared to let you go. I wanted to see your dreams through. All I have left to hold onto, is knowing that God needs the good ones too! i feel extremely blessed to have had this time with you, your beauty will be with me forever. Connie
JAMIE NORWOOD
October 15, 2012
I LOVE YOU A LOT MOM BECAUSE I JUST DO I JUST DO IN MY HEART WHEN MOM NEEDS ME I GO TO HER EVERYDAY I GO TO THE STORE EVERYDAY AND BACK FOR HER MOM WATCH'S T.V. AND MOM CHECK'S HER E-MAIL EVERYDAY ON THE COMPTURE EVERYDAY MOM GOES TO CHURCH WITH CONNIE AND ME AND SOMETIME MOM AND ME GOES TO PRINCE OF PEACE WITH MOM AND ME ON SUNDAY MORNING AND I CHECK THE MAIL IF SHE HAVE ANY MAIL I GIVE THE MAIL TO THE MAIL TO HER
Pam Brosvik
October 9, 2012
Rest in peace. We will feel your light in the neighborhood forever.
Jacquie Borders
October 8, 2012
A beautiful garden now stands alone,
missing the one who nurtured it
But now she is gone,
Her flowers still bloom, and the sun it still shines,
But the rain is like tear drops, for the ones left behind,
The weeds lay waiting to take the gardens beauty away,
But the beautiful memories of its keeper are in our hearts to stay,
she loved every flower even some that were weeds,
So much love she would plant with each little seed,
But just like her flowers she was part of Gods plan,
So when it was her time he reached down his hand,
He look through the Garden searching for the best,
That's when he found Patsy, it was her time to rest,
It was hard for those who loved her, to just let her go,
But God had a spot in his garden, that needed a gentle soul,
So when you start missing Patsy, remember if you just wait,
When God has a spot in his garden, She'll meet you at the gate....
You will remain in my heart always Patsy,
Jacquie Borders
Scott Burns
October 8, 2012
You were missed when you left the airwaves and even more so now. Bless you Patty.
Bill & Joanne Lawrence
October 8, 2012
We loved you and your always thoughtful nature. We admired your tenacity and caring in the rearing of your son and your positive spirit in the face of adversity.....wish we had called and talked recently...if only we had known...our best condolences to Alexis and the Family .
Addy Hansen
October 8, 2012
You were and remain a very lovely, beautiful woman and soul. God Bless you, Dear Patti. Miss you, Dear Lady.
October 8, 2012
If love alone could have spared you, you would have lived forever.
-Leetle Seester Penny
Ed
October 7, 2012
A Light to show you the way PJ.
Miss YOU SO!
Ed Dunaway
October 7, 2012
My Heart goes out to the Family.
I worked with Patti at KGA and at KMPS.
She will be missed.
Brady Wright
October 7, 2012
A genuine soul, too soon gone and long to be missed.
Fern Forrest
October 7, 2012
Patti will be greatly missed at church, and also Jamie. She was a very gracious lady.
Lola Par
October 7, 2012
No poem softly rolling from my lips,
Can tell my pain at losing you.
No song in piteous lament,
Give back the sorrow since you flew.
Since you flew to realms of light eternal,
From which you cannot return,
To keep me company once more.
We cannot meet until my final flight
Wings me to your side for ever more.
Pamela Tomczak
October 7, 2012
If roses grow in heaven,
Please pick a bunch for me,
Place them in my Sister's arms
and tell her they're from me.
Tell her I love her and miss her,
and when she turns to smile,
place a kiss upon her cheek
and hold her for awhile.
Because remembering her is easy,
I do it every day,
but there's an ache within my heart
that will never go away.
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