Patricia Milne Hitchcock

(originally from: Marching Through Time, 2006, Updated 2023)

Obituary

BORN: Patricia Ann Milne, Missoula, MT, 9/17/1935. Resident of Chateau at Bothell Landing - March 2022 – July 2023

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I AM A:

Time/Space traveler

Homosapien Female

Earthling Mongrel

English/Native American (M)

Scottish/Danish (P)

North American

United States Citizen:

Montana/Washington/Arizona

Crow Nation Tribal Member

Atheist / Humanist

Daughter: Cecil Rhodes Milne, Roseanna Chatham Milne

Sister: Robert Lynn Milne

Granddaughter, Niece, Cousin

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MONTANA STUDENT:

St. Regis: 1st grade (3 children)

Richey: 2-3rd grades (11 children)

Malta: 4th-12th grades (50 children)

Malta High School, 1953

Salutatorian 2/42

Drum Majorette– 6.5 years

University of Montana - Missoula

Northern Alpha Phi Sorority Sister

Montana College – Havre, AA Degree Graduate, Teaching, 1957

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MUSICIAN:

Mu Phi Epsilon, Professional Musicians’ Honorary Society

University of Montana - Missoula

Music Scholarship

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MARRIED:

Wife: Jack Benjamin Hitchcock, August 18, 1957

Daughter-in-Law

Sister-in-Law

Aunt

Mother:

Brian, April 28, 1960 (b) September 8, 1965 (d)

Laura, February 16, 1964 (b)

Dean, November 2, 1966 (b) August 8, 2001 (d)

Wodiw: A dead-child survivor (I made up this word)

Mother-in-Law: Jan Moss Glick, August 1, 1998

Grandmother:

Olivia “Oli” Rose Glick, February 20, 2001 (b)

Talia Grace Glick, April 26, 2003 (b)

Feminist

Holiday Home Exchange Club: Here and There – 20 years

Garage-Saler

Costume Jewelry Collector

Antiquer

Teacher: 5th grade and preschool

Businesswoman: Wedgwood Musical Kindergarten Preschool – 1972-1991

Democrat

Bookworm (true crime, especially memoirs, and nonfiction)

Founder: Friends of the Surprise Library Used Bookstore, Surprise, AZ – 2002 (generated nearly $800K by 2023)

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RETIREE: JUNE 1991

Author: Marching Through Time: From Long Ago and Far Away (Amazon and Barnes and Noble)

Hospice Volunteer

Master Quilter

Parkinson’s Disease: Soft-spoken, wheel-chair-transfer-tap-dancer-extraordinaire

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WIDOW: JANUARY 3, 2021, MARRIED 63 YEARS

COVID survivor

Death with Dignity Advocate

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DIED: JULY 18, 2023

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CRAFT PROJECT

Supplies needed: Walnut, nutcracker, scissors, glue.

Directions:

1. Open nut carefully, discard meat

2. Cut “I AM A” list and trim

3. Fold narrowly lengthwise, twice

4. Roll tightly from bottom to top

5. Insert paper in nutshell

6. Glue shells together

7. Put nut in your pocket or purse

8. Take me with you.