Homer Milton Virgil Patterson - Funeral Announcement and Memorial Record

This is the funeral announcement and Memorial Record for my Great Grandfather Homer Milton Virgil Patterson. It says his father is Nathan Patterson - it'd be great if we could find out for sure.  I found Linville H. Harty in the census records but not Delpretty (her married name is Poe). 

Homer Melton Virgil Patterson

Born: 2 July 1860

Death: October 23, 1943

Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Father: Nathan Patterson

Mother: Laura Anne Patterson born January 29, 1835

Delpretty Virginia Adeline Harty - Half Sister

Linville H. Harty - half brother

Gennetta Patterson - sister

Elizabeth Wooldridge - Wife

Inez Patterson - daughter

Melton C Patterson - Son

Briney Patterson - Son

Trinity Methodist Church

Bloomfield, Missouri

October 26, 1943 10:00 a.m.

Rev. Sam Pulliam

Buried in the Bloomfield Cemetery

11:30 a.m. Tuesday October 26, 1943

Bearers: Bob Gaines

Loyd Poe

C C Oliver

J. A. Poe

John Wright

L.D. Fish

Relatives Attending:

J. B. Stacey

Burma Poe

Grace Mathis

Mrs. Chas Fatzinger

Mrs. T. J Biskoff

Cora Buchanan

Stella Freeman

Zulika Elmore

Loretta Chasteen

Alonzo Chasteen

Verino Chasteen

Terry Poe

Gennetta Stacy

Evelyn Barnett

Homer Poe & Wife

Linville Poe & Wife

Irene Aslin

Homer Aslin

Friends Who called:

J.A. Poe

 J L Poe

Frank Aslin

Mr. & Mrs. Ed Perkins

Robert Linville & daughter

Mrs. Jr Carlisle

Mrs. Raymond Edwards

Mr & Mrs Homer Aslin

Mrs. Chase Aslin

Bob Gaines

W J Wilson

Curt McRoy

John Kinny

Edith Kinny

Grover Bright

W L Perry

Millie E Dunning

Florence Wood

Marceline Wood

Wallace J Carlisle

Rosie Fergason

H W Palmer

Mr & Mrs W A Martin

Dwight Wilborn

Mrs. Lowell Fish

Pruett

Everett Walls

S W Black

J  C Kelley

Lloyd Poe

Mrs. H M Flanary

August B. Flanary

Whitt Bennet & Wife

Mystie Briney & June

Mrs. R Kip Briney

Mrs Elvin Smith

Mrs. Mota Spiker

Mrs. Walker Cooper

Mr & Mrs Ben Moore

Bess Tribble

Mrs. Lorene Aslin

Mrs. Orville Moore

Mrs Carlton Buck

Mrs Quiny

Mrs. Morris

Mrs Hickmen

Mrs John Bess

Mrs. Temples

Mrs Minnie Buckam

Mrs Ida Brown

Mrs Alvin Corbin

Mr & Mrs Cy Wooldridge

Mrs Walter Wooldridge

Mr Ralph Wammack

Mr & Mrs Henry Hyslop

Mr & Mrs John Kirby

Mrs & Mrs Pulliam & Lillian

Msr. Mae Fortner

Mrs Soonie Punch

Miss Ada Blair

Mr & Mrs Willie Cates

Mrs & Mrs Mat Edwards

Mrs Wes Walker

Mrs Asa Holmes

Mr & Mrs Martin

Miss Veda Query

Mrs. Nota Spikes

Mrs. Laura Hickman

Mrs. Ralph Wammack

Elmer & Lura Medcalf

Mrs H M Flanary & Gussie

Cassie & Bob Gaines

Clyde & Ruby Alexander

The Tribbles

Mrs. Briney & June

Mrs. Cooper & Winnie

Mr & Mrs Vane Brannock

Mr & Mrs Murlyn Scott

Mr & Mrs Jesse Bennett

Mr B H Prentice

Mr & Mrs John A Harper & Family

Mrs J W Farris & Family

Mr & Mrs B C Murphy

Mrs & Mrs Frank Brannock

Mrs Condon & Jeannine

Chiles Funeral Service 

Bloomfield, Missouri

Family Treasures

I received some family treasures this week.  

My great Uncle's high school diploma

My Great Great Grandparent's Bible

 They were Methodist

Here is their Marriage certificate in the Bible

 There is information on births and deaths and when people converted and became Methodist

 And here is Melton's copy of the Bible.  He was a Mason.

Simon William Wooldridge - Photo of Cy Wooldridge

Here is an old photo I found of Cy Wooldridge (name written on the back) from my Aunt Inez's box of pictures. She loved family history.

Son of Rev. William S. Wooldridge & Sarah Sallie Amanda Crist

His Siblings are: Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge Patterson

Ora J. Wooldridge Thompson

Lulu May Wooldridge Calvin

Dr. Walter Briscoe Wooldridge

and 

Grace Pearl Wooldridge Mathis

Cy married Bertha Beatrice Corbin on 24 Dec 1911 in Stoddard County, Missouri

He is buried in the Bluff Cemetery in Idalia, Stoddar, Missouri Plot:Row 11

His FindAGrave Memorial Number is: 32514537

Headstone Photos by Brent Gillespie

Briney Patterson

 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.

Lenore Inez Patterson - a little history

She was born 6 Dec 1904 in Bloomfield, Stoddard, Missouri to Homer Milton Virgil Patterson & Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge.

Her fiance was killed in a motor vehicle accident just before they were to be married. She was heart broken and just never found anyone else as good as him.

Although she never married she shared a home with her brother Melton Patterson and his girlfriend Marge which they bought in 1949 in Downey, California.

She used to teach piano part time to begining piano students from UCLA. She was  an accountant until she retired and had a real affinity for gambling on horse racing.

She collected cook books and never used any of them. She had hundreds of them. She made terrific bisquits on her dining room table and baked them in her very old 1949 oven.

She always had lots of gossip about family members, but it was old gossip which sounded more like history. Most of the people she talked about were dead or very old and it was usually something they did way back when they were young.

During her lifetime she lived in Missouri, and California.

After surgery for a cardiac problem she passed away at the age of 87 on January 12, 1991 in Downey, California.

Dear Laura,

Aunt Inez and Uncle Pat bought their home in Downey about 1949.  She never married because her fiance was killed in a motor  vehicle accident just before they were to be married and she was heart broken and just never found anyone else to replace him.  That is what my mother told me.

She used to teach piano part time to begining piano students from UCLA.  She could play well but sort of pounded the piano into submission. I don't remember her having an elligant touch.

She was  an accountant until she retired and had a real affinity for gambling on horse racing.  She and Uncle Pat kept statistics on the horses and had piles of horse racing booklets about the horses and jockeys stacked around the living room.  She, Pat and Marge went to the track several times a month.  She usually did well and was very self disciplined about her gambling.  It was not an obcession and she did not put herself in financial straights with it.

They always ate their meals on TV trays.  You know the old pressed sheet metal jobs with the tubular metal folding legs.

She made terrific bisquits on her dining room table and baked them in her very old oven (1949).  She used to let me cut them out with her bisquit cutter.

When we went to visit, she and Uncle Pat would always take us kids to Disney Land and Knots Berry Farm. They seemed to have tons of energy.  I never heard her complain about being tired or in pain.  She just never did that sort of thing.  We always stayed until the parks closed.

She always had lots of gossip about family members, but it was old gossip which sounded more like history than gossip to me, cuz most of the people she talked about were dead or very old and it was usually something they did way back when they were young.

They had a couple of dogs over the years that were extremely psychologically unballanced.  Smokey was the first I remember. He was never friendly.  The other was this little monster from hell with a terrible overbite who could hardly eat.  They never fed them pet food without adding chicken or beef to the meal.

They lived at 9008 Horley Dr in Downey.  She collected cook books and never used any of them I don't think. She had hundreds of them.  Other than the  bisquits, I don't remember her meals being very good at all.

Aunt Inez was the person that got me started  on genealogy.  She gave me most of the Patterson side up to Francis Flournoy.

Aunt Inez was a great person whom I have the utmost love and respect for.  She was always sweet and kind in a gruff sort of way and never had a cross word for me, ever.

Love, Dad (Dennis Crist Patterson)

May 13, 2007

Homer and Lizzie Patterson

This is a photo taken of Homer Milton Virgil Patterson and Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge (Lizzie Patterson) in Missouri.

Life Summary - Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge

Image Reads:

1876-1961

She was born March 13, 1876 near Elizabeth Township, Harden, Kentucky to William Simon Wooldridge and Sarah Elizabeth Crist.

She married Homer Milton Virgil Patterson on January 4, 1903 in Missouri. She and Homer had three children together: Lenore Inez was born on 6 December 1904, Melton Crist on 25 December 1907, and Briney on 10 November 1913. They raised them in Bloomfield, Missouri.

She became a grandmother in 1944.  All of her great grandchildren were born after she passed away.

Her husband passed away in 1943 at the age of 85 when she was 67 years old.

This photo was taken of her in the spring of 1950 at the age of 74.

She passed away at the age of 85 on September 29, 1961 in Downey, Los Angeles, California.

Ora Wooldridge & Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge Patterson - Sisters

This is a photo of my Great Grandmother Lizzie Wooldridge with her sister Ora Wooldridge.

Homer Milton Virgil Patterson - Funeral Announcement and Memorial Record

This is the funeral announcement and Memorial Record for my Great Grandfather Homer Milton Virgil Patterson. It says his father is Nathan Patterson - it'd be great if we could find out for sure.  I found Linville H. Harty in the census records but not Delpretty (her married name is Poe). 

Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge

Lizzie Wooldridge or rather Courtenay Elizabeth Wooldridge

This photo was taken in Farmington, Missouri when Lizzie professed religion in 1899.