Patricia Lee Edwards

AUGUSTA -- On Nov. 21, 2006, Patricia Lee Edwards was greeted by her dad to meet her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She died in peace, surrounded by her loving family after a courageous battle with cancer.

Pat was born in Augusta on June 27, 1947. She was one of six children of Dr. Norman L. Edwards and Esther B. Edwards.

She graduated from Cony High School in 1965 and attended Becker Junior College in Worcester, Mass. Deciding to seek a warmer climate, she moved to Florida, where she worked in the pathology department at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. She went to work as a transcriptionist for the medical records department after the Imperial Point Hospital in Fort Lauderdale was built.

After living and working in Florida for 16 years, she decided to come back to Maine to be closer to her family and to start one of her own. For the next 16 years, she was employed at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta in the medical records department as a transcriptionist. During her last seven years, up to a week before she passed away, she was employed at Legal Services for the Elderly in Augusta as an executive administrative assistant.

At this time, the Edwards family would like to thank all at Legal Services for your caring, kindness and wonderful support that you gave to Pat during these last 12 months.

She was a lifelong active member of Penney Memorial United Baptist Church and was on many committees, including helping her mother with the VIPs. She had also been a previous member of the Eastern Star and the Children of the American Revolution. She was quite involved with the Boy Scouts and Modern Woodman of America as her son, Jon, growing up, belonged to both.

Pat had many passions. One was the study and knowledge of our genealogy that she and her cousin, Sybil, spent many days and hours on. Another was tatting as she has made many different pieces for friends and family. She also had a green thumb and loved to work in her garden. She had a gifted talent for writing poetry and enjoyed doing all sorts of arts and crafts. Every Friday night she and her longtime buddy, Marni Grant, would sit around Pat's kitchen table and paint Ukrainian eggs until the wee hours of the morning. As Jon and her niece, Shannon, were growing up, Pat loved to sit down with them to do different crafts. She had a hankering for picking strawberries in the summer and apples in the fall and she would gather up three of her great-nieces, Mariah, Ali and Delaney, to go with her. She was an avid reader as well. She also enjoyed going down Route 1 on warm and sunny days to go "'Tiquin" with her three sisters. Maybe not always warm and sunny, but she loved it.

She cherished her visits with her granddaughter Ava, Jon and Jamie.

Her father, Dr. Norman L. Edwards, predeceased Pat, in 1990.

She left behind her son, Jonathan B. Edwards and his fiancée, Jamie Beland, of Hallowell and her 5-month-old granddaughter, Ava Leigh Edwards; her mother, Esther B. Edwards of Hallowell; three sisters, Marlene Black and husband Kenneth of Augusta, Deborah Billing of Augusta and Wendy Crowley of Waterville; two brothers, Richard N. Edwards and wife Elinor of Augusta, and Bryce K. Edwards and wife Olive of Augusta; 14 nieces and nephews and 15 greats. She also leaves behind her longtime friends, Bonnie Randall, Bobbi Harris, Vesta Cassidy, Ann DePasquale, Joan Grant, Marilyn Nason and Yvonne Irby.

A celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m. Dec. 1 at Penney Memorial United Baptist Church, 35 Grove St., Augusta, with a reception immediately following.

In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to Legal Services for The Elderly, P.O. Box 2723, Augusta, ME 04338-2723.

Arrangements are in the care of Knowlton and Hewins Funeral Home, 1 Church St., Augusta. http://www.khrfuneralhomes.com