Mrs. Patricia Joan Abraham Stanton

Patricia Joan Abraham Stanton, 86, of Indianapolis, died June 11, 2015. Patricia was born in Indianapolis on May 19, 1929 to Loelia Tomey Abraham and Joseph Hebert Abraham. Raised in Indianapolis, she graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in 1947. She worked as a telephone operator at Indiana Bell before marrying John Tooley Stanton of Centralia, Missouri, and Kokomo, Indiana, on April 10, 1949. He was a decorated WWII veteran and a policeman with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department for 20 years. They were married for 32 years before his death in 1981. They fostered many children. Patricia worked for IPS Food Service at School #79, JJ's Fashions in Honey Creek Plaza, and Speedway Woolco in Women's Apparel. She worked for the State of Indiana Food Stamp Office for 15 years.

Patricia held a lifelong interest in genealogy and contributed many times to the "Indiana Ancestors" column in The Indianapolis Star. She was past Vice President of Indiana Romance Writers of America and queen of TOPS Club in the mid-1960s. She belonged to west-side euchre clubs. Other interest included sewing and needlepoint, painting and crafts, cooking, reading, and creative writing.

She is survived by son John Stanton (Florence), sister Susan Lewis (Edward), nephews Michael Lewis (Dee) and Edward "Trace" Lewis III (Karen), and nieces Linda Dodson (Steve) and Elizabeth Ann Lewis. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, younger brothers James and Ted Abraham, and grandson Eoin Stanton.