Dave Patterson
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| Sex | M | ||||||||||||
| Birth date | 1970 | ||||||||||||
| Birth place | Bradford | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | Julie Albright | ||||||||||||
| Spouse2 | Shae Kirkendahl | ||||||||||||
| Mother | JoAnne Patterson | ||||||||||||
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Dave Patterson was one of Bradford High School Class of 1988 and is the main male character of the book titled Picking Up the Pieces. Dave grew up in Bradford as the only child of a single mom, JoAnne Patterson. JoAnne's husband died when Dave was very small.PUTP6 JoAnne has a brother that served her son as a father figure while growing up.PUTP33
By the time he graduated high school, Dave was six-foot-two, the tallest boy but way shorter than the tallest person in his class, Shae Kirkendahl who was six foot eight!PUTP1
Dave was not happy with the small-town gossip in Bradford and hit the on-ramp, going to college at Columbia University in New York City. He married his college girlfriend, Julie Albright, and had two sons with her, Tyler and Cameron.
David declined the invitation to the 10-year reunion because one of his kids was sick. Emily Holst noted in 1998, "He doesn't make it back here much; he's too much of a New Yorker now. I think the last time I saw him was when he stopped in for gas a year or two ago." HS3 He worked as a book editor with Dunlap and Fyre publishing.PUTP4.
Dave's wife Julie was killed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, while she was on the cell phone with Dave. Devastated by her death, he barely kept himself together, mostly for the sake of his sons.PUTP1
He was helped to recover by Shae, who also lived in New York, and a classmate he couldn't remember, Eve McClellan.
Dave has never had a good relationship with Julie's parents, Deborah and Stan Albright. This did improve starting with his visit to let them know he'd be marrying Shae and that she was pregnant, largely due to the help they'd had from Eve McClellan following Julie's death.PUTP37
Dave helped Emily Holst get the Bradford Courier out when Lloyd Weber had a heart attack - the week following Jennlynn Swift landing a hijacked airliner.PUTP35 He subsequently provided finance for Emily and took a share when Lloyd sold them the paper.PUTP38
During a dinner visit to the Holst home, Dave and Shae talked with 13 year old Kayla Holst about a number of civil rights activists and started her thinking about college.NG16
Dr. Gene Metarie of Spearfish Lake referred to Wendy Carter, one of his patients, as one of the stars of (the "Epic Fantasy") genre, right up there with people like Dave Patterson and Meghan Solerai."HP12
