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Patricia C "Patsy" Campana Kradolfer

24 Aug 1929 – 17 Oct 2004

Birth24 Aug 1929
Death17 Oct 2004
CemeterySunset Hills Cemetery
Bozeman , Gallatin County , Montana , USA
Added byJim Harrison on 10 Jun 2011
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Oct 22, 2004: Patricia Ellen Campana Kradolfer, 75, passed away quietly at home on Sunday, Oct. 17, surrounded by family. She was born in Butte on Aug. 24, 1929, as Patricia Ellen Campana, the fifth of the six children born to Silvio and Mary (Mayme) Sullivan Campana. Pat followed Audrey, Lois, Bob and Jack, and was best big sister to the youngest Campana, Lynn. Patsy grew up on West Copper Street on Big Butte in the shadow of the Immaculate Conception (IC) Church. She attended the IC grade school and then Girls' Central High School. During her school days she played in Central's Drum and Bugle Corps and also dabbled in journalism and photography, including working at Big Al's Photography part-time with her sisters. After high school graduation, Patsy spent several years working for Dunn and Bradstreet. Then, at a dance at the Columbia Gardens, she met the love of her life, Conrad J. Kradolfer Jr. Connie and Pat courted and then married in the IC Church on June 17, 1950. Pat became a stay-at-home mom for the five children who soon followed: Kim, Conrad, Karen, Katie and Curt. In 1963, Pat and Connie moved their family to Bozeman and bought Northside Meat Market with friends Don and Irene DeBorde. That was the first of several businesses they owned and operated there, including City Dye Works Dry Cleaners, a laundromat on West Main and the House of Clean janitorial cleaning supply business. As the children got older, Pat took a more and more active role in the business. Pat and Connie worked as devoted partners throughout their lives together -- as parents, as business partners and in their recreational activities. Pat and Connie both enjoyed socializing at cotillions and at bridge clubs (including a long-standing dinner/bridge club) and pinochle games, playing golf, and watching and wagering on sports with friends, including Bill and Mary Ellen Hitchcock, Don and Irene DeBorde, and Joe and Margy O'Loughlin, and participating in the annual traveling Christmas parties with DeBordes, Don and Gloria Thiesen and the MacQuarrie sisters, Helen and Doris. She enjoyed the many hours spent at the trailer near Three Forks, gardening, canning, floating and fishing during the summers and relaxing in the winters -- in between the Password and Tripoli games. And she enjoyed their travels in this country and abroad, either by themselves or with the Hitchcocks. Since Mary Ellen's death in 2000, she and Connie have continued to enjoy and greatly appreciate the time they've spent with Bill Hitchcock and Jo Murphy. In her later years, Pat enthusiastically entered the "grandmother" phase of life, going to multiple and myriad games and performances to cheer her grandchildren on and admiring and complimenting their achievements. She and Connie permanently moved their home to St. George, Utah, in 1998 after staying a little bit longer each year on their southern sojourns each winter after their retirement in 1987. She enjoyed life in St. George, playing golf, bridge, hiking with visiting grandchildren and taking regular trips to Mesquite. She saw her life coming full circle when they purchased a home on Copper River Drive, noting that "I began my life on Copper Street and I'll end it on Copper Street." Pat was an upbeat person loved by all. She was a voracious reader and always had a great sense of humor. She could and did see the humor in everything and could tell a funny story regarding it! Her smiling eyes and quick laughter will be missed by all who knew her. Pat was preceded in death by her parents and by all of her brothers and sisters. Remembering her forever are her husband, Conrad J. Kradolfer Jr.; and her five children, their spouses and her grandchildren: Kimberly Kradolfer and Richard Misplon and Sam and Ben Misplon of Helena; Conrad J. Kradolfer III and Tana Kradolfer of Bozeman, and Kyle Kradolfer of Bozeman, and Kristin Kradolfer of Asheville, N.C.; Karen (Kradolfer) Scheer and Gary Scheer and Lisette of Pullman, Wash., and Nicole Scheer of Selinsgrove, Pa.; Curt Kradolfer and Cathy Kradolfer and Chris Strand of Bozeman; and Katie (Kradolfer) Johnson and Mark Johnson of Carson City, Nev. She is also survived by seven nieces and nephews: John Driscoll, Ralph Driscoll and Marion Driscoll, all of Butte; Paul Driscoll of White Sulfur Springs; Toni Freeman of Evergreen, Colo.; Jay Driscoll of Crescent Valley, Nev.; and Marjorie Driscoll of San Diego, Calif. She is also survived by former daughter-in-law, Vicki Orazem of Juneau, Alaska; and by numerous great-nieces and nephews and by several cousins. She will be sorely missed by many friends in Montana, Utah and elsewhere. After her diagnosis with cancer in April, Pat truly appreciated the wonderful care and treatment from Dr. McCune and from Hospice of IHC, as well as the support of her friends in St. George, particularly including Bill and Rita Remmel, Lolita and Frank Hagio and Sherma Bishop. A Mass of the Resurrection was held at St. George Catholic Church on Wednesday, Oct. 20. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, at Resurrection Parish Church, followed by a luncheon at Valley View Golf Club. Memorials may be made to IHC Home Care, 1240 E 100 South, Bldg 22, No. 219, St. George, UT 84790.

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