Patricia Braun Donovan

Visitation will be held on Saturday, Dec. 29 at the Edwin L. Bennett Funeral Home, 824 Scarsdale Ave., Scarsdale, N.Y. beginning at 9:00 a.m. A funeral mass will immediately follow at the Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary, 8 Carman Ave., Scarsdale at 11:00 a.m., with burial to follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.

Patricia was born in New York, N.Y. and grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Manhattan and later attended St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, Conn. Soon after marrying the love of her life, Patrick Donovan, she took on the roles of wife and mother, settling and resettling in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, finally calling Plainfield, N.J. home for nearly 30 years. In 1997 she moved to Heritage Village in Southbury, Conn., where she enjoyed welcoming family and friends in addition to reading and traveling.

Patricia was employed by Chubb Insurance in New Providence, N.J., where she worked for 10 years before retiring.

Patricia was predeceased by her husband, Patrick, her parents, Anthony and Evelyn (Murnighan) Braun, and her sisters, Nancy Cotter and Eileen. She is survived by her daughters Daria (Richard) Berlin, Cynthia (Steven) Ewald, Karen, Michele, and Lisa (John) Manley, and sons Patrick and Thomas (Anna Treadway) as well as eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, sisters Mary Moshier, Rita Maloney, Susan Woiccak, Evelyn Kuntz and Barbara Braun-McDonald and sister-in-law Mary Sullivan along with an abundance of nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the St. Francis Breadline (https://stfrancisbreadline.org), 135 W. 31st St., New York, N.Y. 10001 in her memory.