Submitted by: Luke

Amarillo Globe-News, April 13, 2003

Rosemary Patterson 
Amarillo

Rosemary Patterson, 62, of Amarillo died Friday, April 11, 2003. 
Services will be at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel, 2820 Virginia Circle, with the Rev. Bill Wade, 
pastor of Buchanan Street United Methodist Church, and Gene Shelburne, minister of Anna Street Church of Christ, 
officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Miss Patterson was born in Hughes Springs in 1940. She was a 1959 graduate of Palo Duro High School and was 
inducted into the Palo Duro Hall of Fame in 2002. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a master's degree. 
She taught at Midland Lee High School for 15 years where she was head of the Foreign Language Department. She 
then came back to Amarillo where she became head of the Foreign Language Department at Amarillo High where 
she also taught Spanish. She retired in 1999.

Miss Patterson was a member of TFLA and chairman of the state convention held in Amarillo in 1996. She was also 
a member of ACTA and TSTA.

Miss Patterson went on several mission trips over the years to Mexico with the ACT Group. She served as interpreter 
for the group of physicians, dentists and optometrists.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Robert E. Patterson, and a nephew, Steven Patterson.

Survivors include a sister, Elizabeth Sherman of Amarillo; a brother, V.E. Patterson of Lubbock; three nephews, Bob 
Patterson of Modesto, Calif., and James Patterson and Larry Sherman, both of Amarillo; three nieces, Patricia Byrd 
of Lorena, Patty Monroe of Amarillo and Jenny Wyatt of Garland; four great-nephews; eight great-nieces; and three 
great-great-nieces.

A scholarship fund will be set in Miss Patterson's name at a later date.