Floyd Patterson

Miss you Dad

Sorry champ but on Earth you were still a champ went to school with your brother Alvin rest in peace my brother

YOU WERE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD WHEN I WAS JUST A LITTLE BOY IN THE 1950'S. YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED MOST FOR YOUR DIGNITY AND THE WAY YOU CARRIED YOURSELF; ALSO, YOUR GENTLE WAY, AND SOFT SPOKEN CHARACTER. A TRUE CHAMPION FOR WHICH ALL OF AMERICA COULD BE PROUD.

REV. PASTOR O. MICHAEL HUGHES

Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.

Pictures of Floyd Patterson visiting the Troops in Vietnam in 1967 can be seen here on Page 9:
http://www.stagnesalumni.org/StoriesGenHochmuth.shtml

I will mis you're way of boxing. I'm a great fan of boxing and i really loved watching your fights. Kind regards from Willie Peerlings The Netherlands, I heaven there is a special place for great people, you're one of them.

A great Hero of mine. He and Sandra were great friends of our family. She and my late mother Dorothy Scott Akins, were best friends. Sandra babysat me and my siblings, Valerie and Billy. Floyd and Sandra took me shopping once.I entered the ministry in 1977, moving to Oklahoma. Later read where Floyd was a lay clergy adminstering sacrament in nursing homes. I wished I had acted to contact him, butfeared he wouldn't remered ne. But I will never forget my HERO.Reat In Peace, My Friend. Darryl...