Patricia Ann Williamson, 85, handed away peacefully on Dec. 8, 2020, at her dwelling in Yucaipa, California, after an extended and brave battle with ovarian most cancers. Pat was born through the Nice Melancholy on Dec. 17, 1934, in Waynoka, Oklahoma, to James and Mildred Ripple.
Alongside together with her prolonged household, she was a part of the “Okie Migration” to California searching for a greater lifestyle and a brand new starting. Overcoming and surviving by means of the tough financial occasions, Pat graduated from King Metropolis Excessive College on the prime of her class in 1952. She was admitted to and attended UC Berkeley in 1952-53.
Taking a break from her research, Pat moved to El Paso, Texas, the place she met and married Daniel Mereness Williamson on Dec. 31, 1953. She and Dan, a sergeant within the U.S. Military, transformed to Catholicism and started to lift a household that blossomed to 4 daughters and 4 sons. Finally discovering their means again to California, Pat resumed her training incomes each bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in Scientific Psychology, profitable the celebrated Most Excellent Graduate Scholar Award in 1982 from California State College Fullerton. Working as a counselor in Atlanta, Georgia, Pat would finally fulfill her lifetime dream of turning into a health care provider when she earned her Ph.D from American College in Washington, D.C.
After a cease in Provo, Utah, she and Dan finally settled in Prescott, Arizona, the place she lived till relocating to California in late 2019. In addition to being an lively member of Sacred Coronary heart Church in Prescott, Pat was instrumental in a gaggle that based the Yavapai CASA (Court docket Appointed Particular Advocate) for Youngsters group in 2003 (www.yavapaiCASAforkids.org).
Not solely was Pat a faithful spouse, a loving mom and grandmother, however she was additionally an achieved artist expressing herself by means of her portray, sculpting, stitching, baking, and stomach dancing. Pat was additionally an avid hiker, efficiently mountain climbing the Grand Canyon “Rim-To-Rim” a number of occasions, the ultimate time in 2015 in celebration of her eightieth birthday. She can be sorely missed and affectionately remembered.
She was preceded in demise by her husband of 62 years, Daniel; and her son, Joseph Williamson. She is survived by seven kids, Michael (Yvonne) Williamson, Jean (Antonio) Arriaga, Teresa Krebs, Mary Bohlmann, John (Becky) Williamson, Stephanie (Jon) Tahabsim, and James (Carol) Williamson; one sister, Billie Jean Tyra; 18 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren and numerous different household and mates.
A burial Mass at Sacred Coronary heart Church and internment subsequent to her loving husband within the Nationwide Cemetery in Prescott, will happen within the spring of 2021. In lieu of flowers please contemplate a donation to the Yavapai Casa for Youngsters Basis.
“So now religion, hope, and love abide, these three; however the best of those is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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