Sharon Louise Patching

Sharon Louise Patching obituary, Austin, TX

Sharon Louise Patching

Sharon Patching Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Holloway Funeral Home, Inc. on Apr. 22, 2026.
Sharon Louise Patching, born January 24, 1948), in St. Joseph, MO to Glen and Helen Roberts. After her parents' divorce, she remained in St. Joseph with her father while her mother moved to Topeka, KS with her younger sister Lynn Traylor of Topeka, Kansas.

Sharon gained her youngest sister Sue Griffen of St. Joseph, MO after her Father remarried Myrtle Roberts.

Sharon met her husband Earnest James (Jimmy) Patching of Lexa, AK when they were both selling magazine subscriptions with other crews of young adults and married, after only 2 weeks of dating.

Together they raised two children in their hometown of St. Joseph, Missouri. Sharon is Survived by her loving family which includes daughter Christine Lette of Austin, Texas and son, Shane Brandon Patching of Largo, FL and her two grandsons, Aidan and Dawson Lette

Sharon was preceded in death by her husband Jimmy in 2017.

Services will be a simple family gathering to be scheduled at a later date. We will lay our mother to rest with her husband in Onion Creek Cemetery in Austin, TX.

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