She grew up in Michigan and also California with her Mother and Father, 3 sisters (Sheryl, Bonnie and Betsy) and 1 brother (Mike).
Pat graduated from Valley Christian High School in 1969. She went on to work at West Anaheim Community Hospital as a Medical Technician. She later met her husband, David Griepsma. They were blessed with two daughters, Kim and Katie. They moved to Visalia in 1990 where she loved being a stay at home wife and mother. After some time, she opened her home one day a week and enjoyed babysitting for some local moms in the area. Last she worked as a Recovery Room Technician at C.A.M.S. later Sequioa Surgical and retired from there.
Pat will be missed by her children, Kim and Brent, Katie and Don, and grandchildren: Tyler, Tyrus, Travis, Slany, Ella, Kendall and Deacon. She is preceded in death by her mother and father, Jerome and Margorie Kalmink, sister Sheryl Nienhuis, husband David Griepsma and Nephew Bill Baas.
A celebration of life for Patricia will be held Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 10:30 AM at Trinity United Reformed Church, 6400 West Walnut Avenue, Visalia, California.
Patricia will be laid to rest in Visalia Public Cemetery, 1300 West Goshen Avenue, Visalia, California.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.millerchapel.com for the Griepsma family.
