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Kehoe, Patricia Dearborn
Patricia Dearborn Kehoe, 84, died Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, at her home. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 2, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Anamosa. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, with a Scripture service starting at 2 p.m., at Goettsch Funeral Home in Anamosa. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in Anamosa.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
Patty is survived by her two daughters, Teresa (Randy) Dusil and Amy Watkins (Matt Seeley); grandchildren, Matt (Leiah) Watkins, Angela Watkins, Ryan Dusil and Nick (Katie) Dusil; and great grandson, Evan Watkins; as well as her sister-in-law, Virginia Dearborn.
Patty was born July 12, 1929, the daughter of Frank and Tressa Dougherty Dearborn. She was raised in Stone City, Iowa and she loved it there. She graduated from Anamosa High School with the class of 1946 - classmates with whom she still met with monthly. She and Gerald W. Kehoe were married Feb. 7, 1958, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Stone City. She lived in Anamosa for the rest of her life.
Patty worked at the Jones County Treasurer's Office, she and Gerald managed Wapsipinicon Country Club, worked at Family Foods, and retired when she was manager of JETS Transportation. However, her life was not about work; it was about family and fun - playing bridge and golf and more bridge.
Patty was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Anamosa, Anamosa Hospital Auxiliary, Altar and Rosary Society and every bridge club that would have her. She was so proud to have been inducted into the Women's Eastern Iowa Hall of Fame for golf in 2003, and a Wapsipinicon Country Club Hall of Fame inductee in 2005. She had her perfect home and neighbors at Fawn Creek Condominiums. Besides her girls and families, there was no one she loved more than her many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald, in 2001; all of her siblings, Maxine Porter, Elizabeth Dearborn, Josephine Jackson, Jean Thomsen, Robert Dearborn, Donald Dearborn and her special twin brother, Patrick Dearborn.
Memorials may be directed toward the family.
Published Nov. 30, 2013 in The Gazette
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