Pat was the Valedictorian for the Class of 1963. An only child, she was the daughter of a school principal and always had top marks. Pat became a pharmacist and worked in many places including Germany, where she met her partner Hans Schober. Pat retired from the Rexall Drugstore in Ladysmith, to their country property outside Nanaimo. During a trip abroad, she became ill and died in Nanaimo General Hospital in either 2011 or 2012.