Patricia Ann Harbin

December 22, 2014.

Born in Utica, NY in 1930, she was the daughter of Dr.

John Francis Kelley and Lulla Grenon Kelley.

She was raised in Utica and New Hartford, New York

spending all of her summers at Raquette Lake with her

Grandparents, Maggie and Joe Grenon and the family

camp at White Lake, both located in the Adirondack

Mountains.

She attended New Hartford High School and loved athletics;

being a member of the Basketball, Track, Swimming,

Hockey, Softball, Volleyball and Cheerleader teams. She

was awarded the Outstanding Girl Athlete of 1948; her father

was proud as he had played football for Notre Dame

under Coach Knute Rockne.

She had a rough time with learning Latin but finally

passed just before graduation.

She then attended Cortland State Teachers College in NY

State and Katharine Gibbs Secretarial & Business School

in Boston, MA.

Upon certifying at Gibbs, four gals went to Philadelphia,

rented an apartment in Rittenhouse Square and Pat

worked at Furness Withy Co., LTD, who are agents for

various European Steamship Lines.

After two years, she and one roommate took a greyhound

bus to see the country to California. Long Beach

looked great. Pat began to work for Pacific Far East Line,

A Steamship Company and worked there for 8 years.

In 1961, she married Hank Blatnik, a building contractor

and they moved to The Village of Carmel Valley. Their

children were born in 1962 and 1963.

After the children started school, Pat went back to

work; 20 years for Communications Satellite Corp at their

Jamesburg International Earth Station and 11 years for

AT&T which purchased the Earth Station in 1988.

Her husband Hank died in May 1985 and Pat remarried

in 1988 to Lew Harbin, a retired Heavy Equipment

Mechanic who lost his wife shortly after the death of

Hank. Lew died in 2000.

She leaves her son, John Blatnik and his Wife, Terri of

Carmel Valley, Daughter Kelly Barnes of San Jose, Step-

Daughter Margaret (Sugar) Geer of Redding, CA. She

leaves 6 Grandchildren who were the joy of her life –

Tyler and Marissa Barnes, Danielle and William Blatnik

and Jeffrey and Christine Brooks.

She leaves the family of her brother, James Kelley, who

died February 18, 2007, his Wife Bea, of Waterford, CT.

Niece Karen and her Husband Dennis of Old Lyme, CT

and their children Kayla and Connor. Nephew Kevin

and his Wife Robin of Duxbury, MA and their children,

Michelle and Brian.

She also leaves Step-children, Sharon Rezendes of

Hanford, CA and Darrell Harbin of Sacramento, CA.

THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE LIFE, HER HEART

REMAINED, ALWAYS, IN THE ADIRONDACK

MOUNTAINS.

A Memorial Mass service will be on January 7, 2015 at

10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church

in Carmel Valley Village.

The family suggests that, in lieu of flowers, kindly consider

a donation in Patty’s name to the SPCA for Monterey

County, Hospice of the Monterey Peninsula or the

Disabled Veterans Association.

Patricia A. Blatnik-Harbin

Sept. 8, 1930 - Dec. 22, 2014

Carmel Valley