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Mary Elizabeth Patrick Giesler

19 Aug 1915 – 30 Dec 2008

Birth	19 Aug 1915
Death	30 Dec 2008
Cemetery	Hillcrest Cemetery Temple , Bell County , Texas , USA
Added by	Robert "Scott" Patrick on 31 Dec 2008
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32536343

Bio

Mary Elizabeth Patrick was born on the 19th day of August,1915 in Waco, Texas. Her parents were Arthur NS Patrick and Effie Lee Middleton. Mary had three siblings, Virginia Lee, Arthur NS. Jr, and James William Patrick. Her father worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad for 45 years, so the family moved occasionally living in Waco, Shreveport,Corpus Christy,and Brownsville. Brown eyed Mary, 5ft.2", 110lbs, graduated 1933 Byrd High School, Shreveport, LA., member of the National Honor Society, Class officer, Most Popular Girl, Mardi Gras Princess, and later Princess of the Tyler Rose Festival. She represented Corpus Christi at the San Antonio Battle of Flowers, and after graduating from Brownsville Texas Junior College, she studied in Houston to be a Legal Secratary. Her first job was with a prominent Brownsville attorney. "Mary Pat" as she came to be called, worked for Pan American Airways in Brownsville, TX. as Secretary to the company Chief Pilot. She scheduled all the company Pilots flight times- this busy and very important position,led her to Houston, Miami, New York and Europe. Her 40 year career and personal travels let her joyfully sit alongside pilots steering "Flying Boats" embarking San Francisco to points in Asia, London to Rome or Paris. Mary was in Berlin immediately after the "Berlin Lift" ended, and was a participant in the last landing of the Worlds Most Experienced Airline, Pan American Airways. Mary's first marriage to Hugh Joseph Fitzgerald, was a failure that led to an early divorce. But in 1955 Mary married Leonard David Giesler, a long time employee of the Ford Motor Company in Houston, Texas. Leonard and Mary moved to Richland Texas for their retirement years, because it had become the Patrick families home many years before. Leonard preceded Mary in death by 6 years, although Mary never new it, because her conciousness had been lost to ailzeheimers about 4 years earlier. Mary, my aunt was a member of Circle 5 at the First Methodist Church of Corsicana, the Literary Club and the Pan American Round Table.

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Family

Parents

• Arthur Nan Susan Patrick Sr 1887–1967
• Effie Lee Middleton Patrick 1889–1949

Spouse

• Hugh Joseph Fitzgerald Jr 1913–1972 FaG
• Leonard David Giesler 1918–2002 FaG

Siblings

• Virginia Lee Patrick 1918–1919
• Arthur Nan Susan Patrick Jr 1920–2010
• James William Patrick 1923–1998

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