Patricia Broughton Cannon

Patricia grew up in Salisbury, MD, where she attended church, took after-school art classes, and enjoyed baseball and basketball. There, she graduated from Wicomico Senior High in 1957.

As a teenager, Patricia fell in life-long love with Elvis Presley, as well as, Mickey Mantle and the rest of the Yankees whom she considered the best baseball team on earth!

After graduation, she left home to study nursing and graduated from Delaware Hospital with an RN degree.

Her first job was with the Wilmington VA Hospital until 1975. Patricia would later renew her license and work for Home Health Care agencies in NC from 1992-1995. She also assisted in manning the day care center at the YMCA in Hope Mills from 2000-2003.

Above all, she considered her main calling/occupation as: “Mom”. Patricia’s first two children Charles Stewart Jr. (now deceased) and Barbara Stewart Mills were born in Delaware in 1965 and 1966. Her third child, Joseph Cannon III was born in 1980 on a US army base in Germany. Patricia was often active in her children’s schools as well as scouts and little league.

Patricia was an avid reader, and always maintained more than one book at a time, at various marked stages, finishing only the ones she liked best! She encouraged reading for her children in an age of television, and endured almost 40 years of Zoom, with Easy Reader, Reading Rainbow, and Dora thrown in for good measure. She also enjoyed logic problems and game shows. Her board game of choice was always Scrabble. Patricia prided herself in staying current with the news, but also loved true crime shows, Survior and Dancing with the Stars.

Patricia raised and cared for her children with love, enthusiasm, and the lion’s share of her patience. She credited God, always, as her greatest source of strength. When she attended church it was at Cumberland United Methodist. Even when she did not attend church, she maintained a daily relationship with God.

Left to cherish her memories are husband, Joseph Cannon II; daughter, Barbara Mills; son, Joseph Cannon III; and granddaughter, Alexia Charleston.