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 Despair 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 in the hunt 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 commenced to boost a household that blossomed to 4 daughters and 4 sons. Ultimately discovering their method again to California, Pat resumed her schooling incomes each bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in Scientific Psychology, successful the celebrated Most Excellent Graduate Pupil Award in 1982 from California State College Fullerton. Working as a counselor in Atlanta, Georgia, Pat would ultimately fulfill her lifetime dream of changing 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 ultimately 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 bunch that based the Yavapai CASA (Court docket Appointed Particular Advocate) for Youngsters group in 2003 (www.yavapaiCASAforkids.org).
Not solely was Pat a loyal spouse, a loving mom and grandmother, however she was additionally an completed 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 80th birthday. She will probably be sorely missed and affectionately remembered.
She was preceded in dying by her husband of 62 years, Daniel; and her son, Joseph Williamson. She is survived by seven youngsters, 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 associates.
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 take into account a donation to the Yavapai Casa for Youngsters Basis.
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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