PATRICIA MARIE

Sisters summer 2016 at Mayo wedding.

We sisters always had lots of laughs on our shopping outings!

We helped Patty clean the rental house before she moved in.  

Fun time.

 Patty loved the sisters' cookie exchange.

This was the very first one

 Patty's 60th birthday luncheon.

 Lew helping with Patty's house projects.

 If this doesn't make us laugh, nothing will!  Good times.

Winter or summer---Patty was always a WORKER!

 Cameras, cameras, and more cameras!

November 2016 birthday lunch for Patty

Fooling around at the Allen Family Reunion

 Mary Ann's retirement party

 Allen sisters' Christmas gift exchange.

 Picking sour cherries with her sisters in Webster, NY

*(left to right) Patty and Cathy, Cindy, (Lynn---a friend), Mary Ann, and Carol

Carol sent this to me, noting Patty holding Cathy's hand.

And Cathy held her hand right back---until the very end.

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me,
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room,
Why cry for a soul set free!
Miss me a little - but not for long
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared,
Miss me, but let me go.
For this journey that we all must take
And each must go alone;
It's all a part of the Master's plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know,
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.
Miss me, but let me go.

- Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)

We will miss you dearly, Patty.

Psalm 139: 23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;

          test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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See if there is any offensive way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting.