Patricia A Wilcox

Patti was born August 18, 1931, in Woodward, Oklahoma to Alta Faye (Jewett) and John F. Leonard. After moving to Mount Vernon with her mother at the age of 8, she attended Helen Bush School for Girls in Seattle. When her brother Joe was born in 1945, she attended Mount Vernon schools and graduated in 1949. It was there that she met her future husband Bob, who was attending Skagit Community College on the MVHS campus. After marrying in August 1949, they moved to Bellingham where they both attended Western Washington University. Patti went to business school and then went to work for a bank until their daughter Cyndi was born. After graduation, Bob and Patti moved to Concrete for Bob’s first teaching job, where their daughter Paula was born. In 1954, Bob and Patti moved to Sedro-Woolley, where their daughter Debbie was born.

As the family grew, Patti went to work for her stepfather, Leland Parker, at Parker’s Men’s Shop in downtown Mount Vernon as the bookkeeper and buyer for the ladies’ department. After the Men’s Shop closed, she worked for her brother at Rainbow Bridge Shirtworks in La Conner. She was involved in Orthopedic, bowling league, and the Saint James Episcopal Church. She was many times a grade school room mother for her daughters, and one year she was the room mother for all three of their classes. Bob and Patti cruised to Alaska, spent a few winters in Yuma, and attended Bob's New York Life conventions in Vancouver, Banff, New York City, hitting Mexico City on the way home. Later in life, she traveled to Ireland, Wales, Costa Rica, Spain, Morocco, London, and Paris—where at the age of 71 she expertly rode a Segway through the streets on an evening tour of the city. However, there was nothing she enjoyed more than the simple pleasures of time spent with family and friends.

Patti was preceded in death by her parents Faye and Leland Parker and John and Mirth Leonard, brother Joseph Leland Parker, daughter Deborah Lynn Skogmo, in-laws Paul and Marie Wilcox, and her husband Robert. She is survived by her daughter Cyndi (Randy) Walters and their children Ryan, Robert (Kyla), Jonathan (Niki); her daughter Paula (Graham) Carr, and their children Aaron (fiancée Mallory), Anna, Heather, and Jessica; and her grandson Troy Skogmo, and numerous great-grandchildren.

At her request, there will be no service. She will be laid to rest in Burlington Cemetery next to her husband Bob and her beloved daughter Debbie.

No local services will be held.