Marjorie Sessler Patterson

Marjorie Sessler

Marjorie Sessler Patterson

Marjorie Sessler and Bill Patterson

Rena Marjorie Sessler, the first of six children, was born to Warren and Beulah (Boaz) Sessler, on 13 Jun 1924 in Elkhart, Baca, Kansas. She lived in Pratt, Pratt, Kansas (1926) and Hugoton, Stevens, Kansas (1930) where she graduated from Hugoton High School in 1941/1942. She married Bill "Pat" Patterson, also from Hugoton, and they owned and operated a successful tile business in Phoenix Arizona for many years. They had three children: Kyle (1944), Charlotte (1946), and John (1950).

On Sunday, 2 May 2010, Marjorie passed away quietly in her sleep at her home in Sun City, Arizona. She was 85 years, 10 months and 19 days old. Survivors include her children, one grandson, Dane Patterson, three brothers: Robert (JoAnn) Sessler of Amarillo TX / Quartzsite AZ, Mike Sessler of Glendale AZ, David (Ann) Sessler of Phoenix AZ, one sister: Betty Tackett of Hugoton KS, and numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family members. She was preceded in death by Bill Patterson, brother, Harry Sessler, and her parents.

Aunt Margie was as kind and generous as she was beautiful. She was an intelligent and successful businesswoman who worked first as a secretary in Baltimore, Maryland and then many years as Bookkeeper and Office Manager of Phoenix Tile. She was loved by all who knew her and she is greatly missed.