Patricia Askins
March 17, 1922 — May 15, 2016
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Patricia Askins
Patricia Lynch Askins
March 17, 1922 – May 15, 2016
Lois Patricia Lynch Askins passed away peacefully on May 15, 2016, in Waco, after a long illness. She was 94.
Pat (also known as Patsy), though happily transplanted to Texas, was a proud Oklahoman and Irish American. Her journey took her to Abilene Christian College on a trombone scholarship and to Washington, D.C., during World War II—as one of the young women known as the “government girls” who moved there to aid in the war effort. She returned afterwards to work for the Halliburton Company in Duncan, OK. Moving to Texas in the 1950s, she was a wife and mother, and also worked in business for Trinity Universal, Methodist Hospital Central, and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Headquarters in Dallas.
She was in remission from stage-four throat cancer for 65 years and lived her life with joy and laughter. Among her many loves were her family, Big Band music (especially Tommy Dorsey), crossword puzzles, playing bridge, Coca Cola, the Dallas Cowboys, and shopping…lots of shopping.
She is survived by her daughter, Sally Lynn; her sisters, Johnny Jo Matthews and Helen Cook; her daughter-in-law, Shirley Askins; her grandchildren, Robert, Jennifer and Jonathan Askins; her grandson, Bradley Mahurin; the Whittern family, numerous nieces and nephews; her Seventh & James Baptist Church family; and her beloved caregiver Karen Holmes.
Her husband, Alton, her son, Kenneth, and her parents, John and Esther Lynch, precede her in death.
Her graveside service will be Thursday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. at Five Mile Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. A memorial gathering will be held later in the summer. For more information contact Seventh & James Baptist Church.
Pat would have wished for memorial donations to be made to the American Cancer Society.
March 17, 1922 – May 15, 2016
Lois Patricia Lynch Askins passed away peacefully on May 15, 2016, in Waco, after a long illness. She was 94.
Pat (also known as Patsy), though happily transplanted to Texas, was a proud Oklahoman and Irish American. Her journey took her to Abilene Christian College on a trombone scholarship and to Washington, D.C., during World War II—as one of the young women known as the “government girls” who moved there to aid in the war effort. She returned afterwards to work for the Halliburton Company in Duncan, OK. Moving to Texas in the 1950s, she was a wife and mother, and also worked in business for Trinity Universal, Methodist Hospital Central, and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Headquarters in Dallas.
She was in remission from stage-four throat cancer for 65 years and lived her life with joy and laughter. Among her many loves were her family, Big Band music (especially Tommy Dorsey), crossword puzzles, playing bridge, Coca Cola, the Dallas Cowboys, and shopping…lots of shopping.
She is survived by her daughter, Sally Lynn; her sisters, Johnny Jo Matthews and Helen Cook; her daughter-in-law, Shirley Askins; her grandchildren, Robert, Jennifer and Jonathan Askins; her grandson, Bradley Mahurin; the Whittern family, numerous nieces and nephews; her Seventh & James Baptist Church family; and her beloved caregiver Karen Holmes.
Her husband, Alton, her son, Kenneth, and her parents, John and Esther Lynch, precede her in death.
Her graveside service will be Thursday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. at Five Mile Cemetery in Dallas, Texas. A memorial gathering will be held later in the summer. For more information contact Seventh & James Baptist Church.
Pat would have wished for memorial donations to be made to the American Cancer Society.
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