He was born 10 November 1913 in Bloomfield, Stoddard, Missouri to Homer Milton Virgil Patterson & Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge
He married Emily Catherine Barnett on Sept 4, 1943 when her daughter Ruth Jean Miller was 18 months old.
He and Emily had three children together: Dvina Inez, Dennis Crist, and Steven Briney Patterson.
He served in the United States Air Force for several decades.
After the death of their daughter Dvina Inez at the age of 17 and years of trouble in their marriage, Briney and Emily divorced in 1969, while living in Arizona.
He remained single after that.
During his life he lived in California, Florida, Alaska, Mississippi, Montana,and Arizona.
He suffered from prostate cancer and lung cancer from smoking cigarettes. Eventually he passed away at the age of 63 on July 1, 1981 in California.
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