Patricia Ann Bohn

(nee Enright)

March 18, 1927 - July 2, 2024

Former Sequim/Dungeness resident Patricia Ann Bohn (nee Enright) died in Yakima, Washington on July 2, 2024, at age 97. She was born on March 18, 1927, in Mishawaka, Indiana to Edwin McPherson Enright, an engineer, and Martha Minnie Petersen. She was smart and athletic, captaining her high

school basketball team in Front Royal, Virginia. She met her future husband, Harold Owen Bohn, in 1946 at church. He was a visiting Air Force lieutenant, and she was the church organist. A few months later she left her parent's home to travel--alone at age 19--by bus and plane to Panama to marry him. Their first child, Sharon, was born the following year; their second child, Gregory, five years later in Alaska.

Pat was an active Air Force officer's wife but also a working professional who managed several airport gift shops for Host International Inc. (which later became part of the Marriott Corporation) - the last being at the Sacramento International Airport. She and her husband Hal (or Hob, as he was also known) lived in many places and also enjoyed traveling for vacations and visiting family members living abroad. At home, Pat enjoyed playing bridge and, later in life, bingo.

After Pat and Hal had fully retired, they moved to Dungeness, Washington and became active members of the Sequim/Dungeness community.

Together, they were instrumental in rescuing and restoring the historic Dungeness Schoolhouse with a small group of other residents. They also worked as community aide volunteers, were congregants of the Faith Lutheran Church, and members of the Shipley Senior Center in Sequim. After Hal passed away in 2014, Pat remained in Dungeness until 2019 when she moved to Yakima to live with her son Greg's family.

Always gracious, kind, generous, and even tempered, Pat was much loved by those who knew her and is greatly missed by her family.

She is survived by her brother Edwin McPherson Enright and wife Carol in Reno, Nevada; by her daughter Sharon Bohn Gmelch and husband George in Napa, California; by grandson Morgan Gmelch, wife Ann, and great-granddaughter Mara in Albany, New York; by her son Gregory Enright Bohn, wife Marta, and granddaughter Elizabeth Bohn, and by grandson Harold Bohn, wife Julie, and great-grandsons Julian, Nathaniel, and Alex in Yakima, Washington; and by grandson Patrick Bohn, wife Stephanie, and great-grandchildren Jacob and Emma in Lubbock, Texas.