Donald was an executive with Beneficial Finance Corporation which required national and international travel so Patricia traveled and moved extensively in her youth. She attended elementary school in Toluca Lake, California and high school at Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey. Her fondest memories of her childhood were spending time each summer at Sable Ranch, near present-day Valencia, California where her parents were partners in a large chicken egg ranch. She would candle eggs in the morning and ride horses bareback or swim in the pond in the afternoons.
Patricia (now Patti) graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1962 with a degree in French. She was very proud to have attended Pomona and felt lucky to be in the company of so many bright and accomplished classmates.
After college, she did graduate work at USC and became an elementary school teacher in Orinda, Mill Valley, and other cities in the Bay Area. She loved teaching second graders and admitted her favorite subject may have been recess where she was able to lead the children in organized games and sports.
She married Dallas Scott Holmes, whom she met at Pomona, in 1965 in Newport Beach, California. They honeymooned along the California coast and were lucky enough to be lured into a free winetasting at The Sea Ranch, at the time a brand-new innovative housing development on the Sonoma coast. That chance stop along Highway 1 ensured they would later own a treasured home there where they would enjoy decades of memories with family and friends.
Patricia (now Pat) moved with Dallas to Riverside, California where he practiced law and later became a judge. Pat worked in private bookkeeping, and later publishing at UC Riverside, all the while raising two sons: Mark (1968) and Tobin (1971). She was present every single day of their lives, for which they are eternally grateful.
She lived in Riverside for over half a century, working, raising a family, volunteering, and enjoying many close and wonderful friendships.
She was proud of her husband, her two sons, and their wonderful wives, Catherine and Cathy. She often joked she liked her daughters-in-law more than her own sons. She also loved her three granddaughters: Olivia, Victoria, and Cora.
Pat always treasured the company of collies and was lucky to have about a dozen over the decades. Piper was her first. Wallace was her last. With many in between. Every one was a wonderful companion.
As a couple with Dallas, as an extended family, or with friends, she enjoyed travel to places like Britain (for hikes through the moors, or just to her seat at Wimbledon), Spain (for a Summer Olympics), France (for any reason), Mexico (parasailing anyone?), Canada (a Winter Olympics), Alaska, Hawaii, and dozens of points in between. But her happiest times may have been spent on the Northern California coast with family and friends at The Sea Ranch hiking along the bluffs, collies at her side.
She enjoyed theatre, symphonies, and attending sports her whole life, and playing bridge and canasta with friends. She bled Dodger Blue, often noting the team followed her west when she moved to California in 1958.
Pat was smart, funny, tough, loyal, unpretentious, selfless and kind… as well as rather modest. Thus, she wished for no funeral or service of any kind. She is already, and will always be, missed.
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