My wonderful, darling Patricia was taken by the Lord to heaven to free her from the pain and suffering which she has been occasionally enduring for the past year. She died peacefully and pain free. Now she is waiting for the rest of us to join her in everlasting happiness.
Our wonderful relationship started in 1961. She started things by calling the plant where I was working and asking for the “good looking guy” who visited the hardware store where she worked. The reply was, “you mean the bashful Yankee?” After 3 months, we eloped to Bambridge, GA and were married at the county courthouse with a dog as one of the witnesses. Pat had never been out of Florida except when she came to Georgia as a baby. We started our life together setting out for California where I was transferred. We lived in Long Beach, El Segundo, and Ontario. We were blessed with two wonderful children while we lived there. From California, we went to Vicksburg, Mississippi, then Morgantown, West Virginia, then San Antonio, Texas, then Himeji, Japan for a year, then Poquonock, Connecticut for ten years, then the Chandalar neighborhood in Pelham in 1978, and finally to her beloved house in the Ledges.
She was a bubbly, active person. She was an active member of the Chandalar Garden Club, an officer, and had the unofficial job as the “sunshine lady.” Also, for many years, she was active in the Chandalar Homeowners Association, getting new members and getting neighbors to volunteer to pay the yearly dues. There were many Garden Club and Homeowners parties at our house. She sold Avon for several years, not for the money, but for an opportunity to get out and meet people. While I was working in Birmingham, I held regional meetings at various resorts around the Southeast. She was always the hostess, entertaining both ours and customer engineers. After I retired, she loved to travel and became a very good photographer. She traveled up and down the west coast, to Alaska, Panama, Costa Rica, Italy, Israel twice, Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Madagascar, and back to our old home in Japan.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Charles R. Stone and Beatrice Weeks Stone of Pensacola; her half-brothers, Henry Amerson of Montgomery, Alabama, and Dr. Richard Amerson of Atlanta, Georgia.
A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 11:00 am with a visitation one hour prior at Southern Heritage Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Alzheimer's association.
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