Billie Louise Patterson

Billie Patterson lived at River Landing at Sandy Ridge (Presbyterian Homes), where she enjoyed a life full of many friends and various activities for 18 years. She never met a stranger. Everyone who knew Billie loved her for her friendly smile and magnetic personality.

Billie was born in Conover, NC on January 16, 1930, to the late Austin Boyd Kunkle and Ethel Mae Adams Kunkle Madison. Billie moved to Fayetteville, NC, during high school where she attended Fayetteville High School graduating in the Class of 1947. It was there that she met and later married the love of her life, Robert R. (Pat) Patterson, Jr., with whom she shared 60 years of a great life together.

Billie was a devoted wife, daughter, sister, mother, aunt, grandmother and great grandmother. She had a 24-year career at Wachovia Bank & Trust (Wells Fargo), where she was an Asst. Vice President. After she retired, she spent time with friends and family, enjoying her weekly bridge games and traveling. She particularly enjoyed pleasant beach trips with family. She was a devoted Christian and was a member of Sedgefield Presbyterian Church for over 30 years and most recently was a member of High Point Presbyterian Church (since 2007). She was on the Visitation Committee for the Church and involved in her PW Circle at River Landing.

She was a volunteer for over six years at the Women’s Auxiliary at Wesley Long Hospital, a member of Sedgefield Woman’s Club, Greensboro Symphony Guild, Greensboro Lecture League, Greensboro Musical Arts Guild, Sedgefield Ltd. Investors’ Club, Eastern Star Chapter W-60, and High Point Alexander Martin Chapter of DAR. Billie was very involved at River Landing on the Hospitality Committee and enjoyed the High Point University Pharmacist’s Program as a mentor for an active pharmacy student for four years. Indefatigable as she was, Billie survived both breast and kidney cancer, but succumbed to stomach cancer.

She was pre-deceased by her husband and sister, Betty Jean Thornton. She is survived by their three children: Diane (Terry) Creasman of Hickory, Debbie (Bill) Pappas of Raleigh, and Robert (Karen) Patterson of Cary, NC; two brothers, Dr. Sam Kunkle of Ft. Collins, CO and Jim Kunkle of Shelby, NC; five grandchildren: Ellen Creasman, Brittani Patterson Gutierrez (Mike), Bayley Patterson (Ryan), Bryce & Blake Patterson and great granddaughters, Phoenix and Savannah Gutierrez and Scarlett Buchan that she loved very much; many nieces, nephews, and great nieces/nephews as well. She will always be remembered for her love and devotion to her family, her kind sweet spirit, and her vitality for living life to the fullest.

Memorials can be made in Billie’s memory to First Presbyterian Church, 918 N. Main St., High Point, NC 27260 or The Presbyterian Homes Foundation, Inc., (now Brightspire) 2109 Sandy Ridge Road, Colfax, NC 27235 or Trellis Hospice, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.

Cryptside services will be held on Saturday, September 10th, 2022 at 10:00 AM at Guilford Memorial Park Mausoleum, 6000 West Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC, followed by a Memorial Service at 2:00 PM in the Multi-Purpose Room at River Landing at Sandy Ridge, 1575 John Knox Drive, Colfax, NC with a reception and visitation following the service.