Patricia Ann Edmonson, taken by our Lord on March 30, 2024 at Kaiser Hospital, Irvine, CA. Pat suffered a stroke March 8th and fought valiantly for 23 days and died with dignity and peace with her family at her side.

Pat was born September 3, 1934 in Philadelphia, to Walter Keenan and Annabelle Richards. She grew up in the Doylestown, PA and graduated from the old Doylestown High School in 1952. Pat then attended Mary Washington College in Virginia.

Pat married Ed Fitch, a naval aviator, and produced three wonderful children Stephan, Nancy, and Lori with whom she maintained lifelong contact with. She started her 39 year career as a realtor in Lake Arrowhead, Palm Desert, Beverly Hills and ending in downtown San Diego.

While living in Palm Desert, Pat met Tom Hood with whom she spent the next 33 years enjoying life along with many friends. They moved to San Diego for 21 years before retiring to Laguna Woods Village in South Orange County. A life well lived and loved by all who knew her.

Pat is survived by her sister Nancy, daughter-in law Nina and Sophie, Nico and Julius.

A life of beauty, dignity, and integrity. She was witty, kind, humorous, beautiful, honest, elegant, and sincere.

Services will be held on April 22nd at 11:00am at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Laguna Woods, Ca. Patricia will be interred at Ascension Cemetery in Laguna Woods, Ca.

A fitting final Native American Prayer

I give you the one thought to keep –

I am with you still – I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone – I am with you still – in each new dawn.

-source unknown to us…