Patricia Mackinnon Daley was born on August 16, 1939, to Ross Taylor Mackinnon and Crystal Crews Mackinnon in Concordia, Kansas where she lived until moving to Salina, Kansas to attend nursing school at the age of 18. While there, she met Airman First Class William Francis Daley, Jr., who was stationed at Shilling Air Force base there. They met on a blind date and continued to date until she graduated from nursing school in 1960. Later that summer, Pat and Bill married at the Church of the Epiphany in Concordia, Kansas. This was the church where she was raised and her parents were best friends with the priest and his wife and it continued to be her church home through the 1980’s. Pat and Bill were transferred to Evreux, France, just outside Paris, and it was the first time she had flown on an airplane or left the country. While there, she gave birth to their first daughter, Colleen Kay in 1963. After returning from France, the Air Force gave her lots of opportunity to live all over the country, from Florida to California. While Bill was stationed near Wichita, Kansas, she gave birth to their second daughter, Janice Marie, in 1966. She remained a stay-at-home wife and mother until 1974, when Bill retired from the military, and they returned to Kansas to be closer to her family. Pat worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Concordia for years while their daughters completed their education at Concordia Jr.-Sr. High School. She worked as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Room, Operating Room, ICU and, for the longest period of time, in the Recovery Room, post operatively caring for people coming out of anesthesia, where patients always praised and thanked her for her kindness, understanding and compassion. Pat was always involved in Eastern Star, the women’s adjunct to the Masonic Temple, but it wasn’t until after she and Bill moved to Fredericksburg, Texas that she was promoted to the highest post of Worthy Grand Matron, while still working as an Assistant Director of Nursing in Texas as well. It was also while she lived in Texas that she expanded her love of crafts and needle work and produced some of her best work and started her “Lady Bug” business. She and Bill moved to Richland, Missouri in the 1990’s and welcomed their first grandchild, Gabriel Alexander (son of Colleen and Larry), in January of 1998. He remained the apple of her eye until the day her eyes closed forever. They continued to reside in Missouri until three more grandchildren arrived in Florida in 2004. They moved to Jacksonville, FL and never looked back. Angelina Ema Marie, James William Manuel and Dylan John were adopted in May of 2005. She fully embraced her roles of wife, mother, grandmother and eventually great- grandmother with an open heart, open mind and always open arms. She lived with Bill in Jacksonville until he passed in May of 2010. After that, she remained active and engaged in St. Elizabeth’s Church and Daughters of the King, as well as family and social activities such as trips to Biloxi, Key Largo, Tampa, attending the yearly Pride Parade in Riverside and socializing at the hair salon, when getting her hair done. She was very proud of the fact that she lived independently until the last year of her life, when she moved to Brookdale, an Assisted Living Facility, to help with her memory confusion caused by undiagnosed Alzheimer’s disease. She died rather suddenly on May 13, 2020, from multiple organ failure due to septic infection while being hospitalized for a cracked hip. But we all know her constant and consistent love she had for all of us will stay in our hearts forever.
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