Patricia Foulk

Margaret Patricia "Pat" Louise Rankin Foulk, 78, died November 27 at home surrounded by her loving family and caretakers. She was born November 9, 1945, in Urbana, Illinois, the daughter of Tom Rankin and Cassie (Calhoun) Rankin.

Pat graduated from Warrenton High, Class of 1963. She later received a bachelor's degree from American University and a master's from USC, which she did while working full time and raising two children. She married Donald G. Foulk in 1967, and they lived in Falls Church and Reston, Virginia, later moving to Mission Viejo, California, before finally settling in Orangevale, California. They celebrated 56 years of marriage in April. Pat worked for the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., then for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Land Management, and Endangered Species Act in Sacramento, California. After retiring, she became interested in genealogy and devoted herself to the Daughters of the American Revolution starting in 2013, holding various chapter and state positions, including Regent from 2016-2018.

She was predeceased by her parents. Surviving in addition to her husband are her older son, Donald G. Foulk, Jr., of Orangevale, her younger son, Darren P. Foulk, and his wife, Tyra Taylor-Foulk, of Sherman Oaks, California, her younger brother, Robert "Bobby" Rankin, and his wife, Carol Rankin, and many nephews and nieces.

A service of remembrance will be held at 1pm on Saturday, December 9 at Mount Vernon Memorial Park and Mortuary, 8201 Greenback Ln., Fair Oaks. Interment will be alongside her parents in Warrenton, Virginia. Those who wish to remember Pat in a special way may make gifts in her memory to animal or leukemia charities.

if you are unable to attend the service, you can watch it at: https://evt.live/patricia-foulk-memorial-service