Patricia Alberta VanDomelen

Patricia Alberta VanDomelen, 98, a longtime resident of the Banks community died Thursday, January 26, 2023 after a full and happy life.
Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be on Saturday, February 4 at 11 a.m. in St Francis Catholic Church, 39135 NW Harrington Rd., in Roy, OR. The funeral Mass will follow at 11:30 a.m. Rite of Christian Burial and Vault interment will take place following the Mass at the St. Francis Catholic Cemetery in Roy.
Family and friends are invited to attend a reception following the burial to be held in the parish hall.
Patty was born on March 17, 1924 in Roy, Oregon. She was the oldest of eleven children born to Joseph and Katherine (Vandehey) Hermens.
Patty worked at Providence Hospital in Portland during the war and met her future husband at a wedding dance in Roy. They were married on June 27, 1946 in Yamhill.
Following the marriage, the couple settled on acreage purchased from Bob's parents where they built their first house from lumber salvaged from an old one-room school house. With a growing family, they eventually built a bigger house on the property where they raised their six children and continued to live for the majority of their lives.
Patty was a first-rate homemaker. She sewed clothes for her children, had a garden and canned most of their fruits, vegetables, pickles, jams and jellies. She baked her own bread and churned butter for the family.
She took great pride in her beautiful dahlia garden. She and Bob were quite the crafters. They made all kinds of wooden planters, Kleenex and toilet paper holders, doll clothes and sock monkeys. Most of those items were donated to the yearly church holiday bazar.
After Bob's death in 2011, Patty stayed in the farmhouse until 2017 when she moved to The Elms in Forest Grove.
She is preceded in death by her husband Bob, son Richard, parents and 6 siblings.
Survivors include five children and their spouses: Linda and Roger Jensen of Portland; Shirley Kalhar of Troutdale; Beverly and Michael Vandecoevering of Canby; Lois and Rick Miller of Banks; Bill and Vicky VanDomelen of Banks; siblings, Rita VanDomelen, Jim Hermens, Larry Hermens and Marie Jorgensen, 8 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter.
The family suggests remembrances in Patty's name to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School