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Submitted: 10/25/23 • Approved: 10/26/23 • Last Updated: 10/29/23 • R1507411-G1507410-S3
Thomas
SEAMAN FIRST CLASS US Navy
World War II
May 26, 1921 - September 12, 1991
Vera
September 14, 1920 - December 6, 2003
Vera Patterson, 83, of Tulsa, formerly a longtime resident of Fort Smith, passed away Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003, in Tulsa. She was born Sept. 14, 1920, in Greenwood Junction, Okla., to Charley and Myrtle English Wheeler. She graduated from Roland High School in 1938. She was a member of Central Baptist Church in Fort Smith. She was preceded in death by her husband, T.F. “Pat” Patterson, and her parents, Charley and Myrtle Wheeler.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003 at Edwards Funeral Home Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Roselawn cemetery.
She is survived by a son, Tom Patterson and his wife Patty of Maumelle; two daughters, Mary Kelley and her husband Ron of Houston and Patricia Bogle and her husband Brice of Tulsa; two sisters, Pauline Hoffman and Helen Welbern and her husband Wendell, all of Fort Smith; an aunt, Ada Ferguson of Fort Smith; seven grandchildren, Cyndi Canada of Denton, Texas, Kim Jacobs and Chris Patterson, both of Dallas, Michelle Mould of Lubbock, Texas, Michael Kelley of St. Charles, Mo., and Melissa and Matthew Bogle, both of Tulsa; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
Pallbearers will be grandsons Michael Kelley, Chris Patterson, Matthew Bogle, Dr. David Mould, Michael Canada, Leon Jacobs and Joshua Alison. Honorary pallbearers will be great-grandsons Cody and Chase Jacobs, Joshua Canada, Cole Patterson and Austin Mould.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003, at Edwards Funeral Home.
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