Patterson, JoAnne

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JoAnne Patterson lives in Bradford, Michigan. Her son, Dave was a member of the Bradford High Class of 1988. Dave was married to Julie Albright and she has two grandsons from this marriage, Tyler and Cameron. JoAnne has been a widow for years. Her husband died when Dave was very small.^PUTP6

JoAnne had been to New York before 2001 to visit her family there and see their home in Battery Park Village. Julie took her to the observation deck of the World Trade Center.^HS36

With Dave and family in New York, JoAnne lived alone. Her best friend was Hazel Perkins, who got divorced about the time JoAnne was widowed. JoAnne's son Dave Patterson had wondered more than once whether there was a lesbian attraction between the two women; if so, they kept it quiet in the gossip-plagued small town of Bradford.^PUTP12 Later, however, he decided they were just good friends and nothing more.^PUTP26

"She had her house in Bradford, her friends were there, her job was there in the office at General Hardware, her interests were there, and she didn't plan on leaving anytime in the next few decades."^PUTP6

From Dave's perspective on meeting his mother after Julie's death, "His mother was short (as if everyone in the room wasn't short next to Shae, of course), about Julie's height, a little solider, with dark hair going gray -- but then, he remembered she'd been going gray twenty years ago, too."^PUTP6