Marion L. Patterson, 96 of New Haven Court, Greensburg, Pa. passed away on Monday, February 14, 2011 in Greensburg.
She was born Tuesday, January 5, 1915 in Jefferson Center, Daughter of the late Howard Leroy and Amelia Fruth Lefever.
Marion had graduated from Butler High School and Slippery Rock State Teachers College. She taught school for many years at several elementary schools in Butler and Westmoreland Counties.
Marion was a caring and loving person who was always ready to help those in need. During her lifetime, she and her husband lived in Murrysville, Westfield, and Greensburg, Pa. as well as Pinehurst, N.C. and New Symrna Beach, Florida. She had been a long time member of the Jefferson Center Presbyterian Church and later First Presbyterian Church in Greensburg and New Symrna Beach Presbyterian Church. She and her husband enjoyed traveling and were passionate golfers, being members of the Sugar Mill Country Club.
She was preceded in death besides her parents by her husband Roy (Cal) Patterson and her son James Patterson and a brother Gene Lefever.
Surviving are her Daughter-in-Law, Susan Patterson of Greensburg , Granddaughter, Kim Quatse and husband Darryl of Crabtree and her beloved Great-Grandchildren, Kaylee and Jesse Quatse, a Brother Howard Lefever and wife Susanne of Erie, her sister-in-law Charlotte Lefever of Dubois and several nieces and nephews.
Family and Friends will be received Thursday from 4 to 7 pm at the Kepple-Graft Funeral Home, 524 N. Main Street, Greensburg.
Services will be held in the Funeral Home on Friday at 10:30 am with Rev. Martin Ankrum officiating.
Interment will follow in the St. Clair Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial donations be made to the First Presbyterian Church, PO Box 1038, Greensburg, Pa. 15601
Terence L. Graft funeral director entrusted with the arrangements. For online condolences and information please visit www.kepplegraft.com