PATRICK JAMES PATTERSON

We met Patrick (otherwise known to us as PP) when he and Ruth were in college together in the 1980s. They hosted us in Champagne when they were students at U of I and we attended the first Willie Nelson Farm Aid concert. We had a great time with them. We observed their relationship evolve over the next few years while they fell deeply in love and eventually married in 1989, I was Ruth's brides maid which was so special. PP became a significant member of our family and we loved him to the moon...

Pat was always an amazing friend. So many memories of long ago, sharing our thoughts while trying to figure out life, and all along deep down he knew what he would be from the moment his Science teacher gave him his first chemistry set. Though different roads we took I have never forgotten caring friendship. God willing, I hope to share some stories with him.

I'm deeply sadden to hear of a former friend passing at so young a age. Met you when pickup trash then to becoming a mailman then back to college and working for Quaker Oats in Barrington. I will miss those days long ago when lunch was a Salad and a margarita at Kelsey's road house. Until we meet again ....