Patsy Keever

Patsy was born in Toledo Ohio the second child of Vance Harrison and Rebecca Harrison. She loved living in Toledo but she especially loved her summers in West Virginia. She visited both her maternal grandparents and paternal on farms and in the hills. Everyone on the farm had jobs and hers was feeding the chickens. She always told stories of feeding the chickens. It was at the farm and her mom's guidance she learned her love of animals and baking. Patsy attended the University of Toledo for her undergraduate studies. She earned a bachelors degree in education. This is where she met and fell in love with a fellow student Tony Keever. Tony and Patsy married on August 22,1953, and enjoyed a long marriage of 57 years that ended with Tony's passing.

There only child Shelley Lee Keever was born on September 17,1954. On January 17, 1955 the young family moved back to Tony's home in New Jersey. Patsy started teaching first grade in Ridgefield, New Jersey. She taught first grade for thirty plus years.While teaching Patsy earned a masters and doctorate in human development. She loved teaching reading and spent many summers tutoring students having difficulty with reading.While living in New Jersey Patsy went once a year to visits her parents, siblings and their children and childhood friends.

Patsy enjoyed travel, and she and family and friends traveled extensively throughout Europe visiting Italy(her favorite), France, Spain, Portugal,Germany, England, and Ireland. They visited Bermuda, Islands of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bahamas, St. Kitts and later years cruised every year for Thanksgiving throughout the Caribbean.Tony and Patsy went on safari in Africa. One of Patsy's dreams.They drove cross country several times. Along the way they visited friends in California and Arizona. They also went to New Jersey every year to visit family and friens to reminisce, share food with much laughter and love. Patsy would accompany her husband to San Francisco and wine country on business trips.

Patsy had numerous hobbies reading, knitting, sewing, needlepoint, to name a few. But she will be best remembered for her baking. She baked trays of cookies at Christmas for friends and family.She baked favorites and every year would add some new recipes. Family always had a homemade birthday cake.

After her retirement Tony and Patsy moved to Sunrise Florida and eventually to Plantation Acres. It was here in Florida where she became a proud grandparent. Grandmother to Lee Jasmine and James Anthony. All her baking skills, sewing skills, and teaching skills went into full gear. There was nothing she couldn't or wouldn't do for her grandchildren. She only asked in return that they take care of her in her old age age and that they did with love and patience. Patsy is survived by daughter Shelley Fernande and husband James, her granddaughter Lee Jasmine and grandson James Anthony.

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