Edith Novotny Patterson was born in Vienna, Austria on March 19, 1928 and passed away on March 1, 2017 in Niceville, Florida. A naturalized citizen having immigrated to the United States from Austria, She was a Proud American. She dedicated her life to her family as the loving wife of a pilot in the United States Armed Forces and a loving mother and grandmother to her four children, four grandchildren and three great grand children. She is preceded in death by her husband Jack Patterson, who passed away in 2006. She will be dearly missed by all those whose hearts she touched.