Remembering Pat

I am so sorry to learn of Pat’s grave illness. We corresponded with one another as recently as several months ago when at her request, I took a few photos and sent them to her of  Hicksville as it looks today.  Pat sent me her photograph. I saw that when it was taken, she appeared to be taking oxygen to help with her breathing. Not a good sign.

My name is John Sherin. 
Pat and I went to high school together and were part of the first graduating class in 1956 from the new building on 
Division Avenue in Hicksville.

The ’56 yearbook has my picture in it. 

  
This is me then and now

I will keep Pat in my prayers. May she
rest comfortably knowing that among all 
the good things she has accomplished,
she has brought much joy to many of us
through her work with the NEWSLETTER.
Tell her she lives forever in our hearts.

God Bless!

John

Dear Cathy & Jennifer:
 
My name is Bruce J. DaCosta.  I come from a family six and I am the youngest.  We grew up at 190 10th street Hicksville, New York just around the corner where I believed the Koziuks lived which was the corner of 9th and Jerusalem Avenue.  I became away of the new letter a few years ago.  Pat would have remembered my older brothers, Peter(Joe), Bobby, Sandra and Richard.
 
I have conversed with Pat on and off over the last couple of years.  She apparently knew my brother Bobbie, well.
 
I pass my love and well wished to you and your family....
 
Bruce

Dear Pat:
I am so sorry to hear of your grave illness.....it was only last month we were having a lively discussion about what photos to [or not to publish] in the HixNews. It is hard to believe that you have been stricken so soon..... I have only known you through e-mail. I knew your brother, Frank, and sister, Florence, at Hicksville High school Class of 1967.

The HixNews has been such a valuable way of getting in touch with old classmates as well as sharing stories of the Hicksville we knew as kids...... I sure appreciate your contributions and effort you put into making a quality online publication!

Your work will be viewed by many Hix students over the next few years and your efforts will be appreciated and remembered by all of us.

 wish you peace as you begin your final phase of life.
Jim Rubins '67 Hix High
Napa, CA

I am not friends with Pat, but I am on the mailing list for Hixnews, I just want to say that my thought and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time.
Cathy Rowan Alumni 1975

Dear Pat,

Though I don't know you personally, I feel as though I know you in a sense, not only because we both attended Hicksville H.S. but because of your wonderful contribution to our great Hix Newsletter.  Pat, my thoughts and prayers are with you and yours in your time of need.  

God Bless,

Lorraine Miltenberg Dalaimo   Class of '60 

I KNOW PAT THRU THE HIXNEWS...SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN HELPFUL AND KIND TO ME...MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND HER... ANTON MURE' 

 Hi Bob,

I just received an email from John Cunningham regarding Pat's health and was saddened to hear she passed away. I didn't know her in high school but enjoyed her emails about Hicksville and New York. She was a very nice lady and will be missed by all of us......

In case you didn't hear Helen Mangiaomini Coulmas also passed away on 4/28/09. Her son George emailed me about the sad news. Helen graduated in 1960.....

Regards,
Ann Grunewald

Hi Pat, 
I am so sorry to learn that you are ill. My prayers are with you.

I just want to let you know what a wonderful job you have done reconnecting people and bringing joy to people who probably would have never heard from one another again if it weren't for all your efforts with the newsletter. 

Each month I look forward to receiving the newsletter and reading all the wonderful things that people have done. How proud I am of them, many of whom I never knew, but now I feel I know them all. Or reading about someone's memories, which so exactly mirror my own. I appreciate all the hours you have put in to make the newsletter such a success.
Hicksville was a great place to grow up and we have produced some great people, but none finer than you and the "editors" to whom we will be eternally grateful. 
Karen Hubner Jenkins Class of '62

Dear Pat,
I was sorry to hear that you are ill. I don't know if you remember me or not but you are one person that I will never forget. We weren't real friends, though I knew you. You were a year ahead of me but you always had a smile and a hello for everyone.

I married Fred Manown and we will celebrate our 50th in Sept. He said to say hi. We always remembered you hanging out with Marty. I just wanted to thank you for all the work you have done with the Hix news letter I have been able to connect with some of the people in my class and keep track of others. You have made a lot of people happy with all your news about Hicksville. It seems the people from Hicksville are still the salt of the earth starting with you.

I remember you being so pretty and smart and I know you still are. I am sending a picture of me and Fred. We wish you love and peace.

Love Joan( Magee) and Freddie Manown

I am really sorry to hear this news. She corresponded with me a few times from Hixnews, but she was 4 yrs ahead of me at HHS & I'm afraid I just don't personally remember her from 'then'. I am sure everyone involved with the newsletter will grieve and miss her sorely. May she rest in peace.

Lois Chaber

I am so deeply saddened by the news of my "e-mail friend's" untimely passing. As I am a stickler for names and faces, I remembered that Pat was a classmate of my brother Ernest Boos when I discovered she was one of the editors of our Hicksville High School Newsletter. I had found a class picture taken at Nicholai Street School with Miss Eleanor Miller (IU think 4th grade)and welcomed the opportunity to scan it and e-mail it to Pat. This had to be 10 years ago. Pat was able to come up with most of the names of the kids in the picture and we remained e-mail friends from then on.

I was always amazed at Pat's input after I'd send her an e-mail to which she didn't always agree. Kept me on my toes!

I shall miss my friend and wish to send my sincere condolences to all her family and our Hicksville High School Newsletter Editors who will feel a great loss.

Ellen Boos Bruwer
Class of 1954

I just read Pat's obituary that you sent this morning. Our prayers are with her and her family. Even though our card to Pat did not make it in time for her to read, I am so glad her family will be able to read it and let them know the huge impact that Pat had on all of us HHS grads! The memories and friends reunited, will be a tribute to her forever. 

Phyllis Jackson (Tremmel) Diercks

I was very sorry to read this morning the notice of Pat's death. I had received the earlier request you made though Hixnews for information on Pat's email friends.

I was a classmate of Pat's in the HHS class of 1956. I lived on Acre Lane.

I was notified by mail on our graduation day, the end of June, that I had been accepted to go to West Point and reported in there on July 3, 1956 - no summer vacation for me that year.

After graduation I went into the Air Force as a pilot, flew 9 years and then was assigned to teach at the Air Force Academy here in Colorado Springs. I spent 13 years on the faculty teaching engineering until I retired in 1982. I then ended up owning an aircraft seat manufacturing company here. I sold that company 12 years ago and retired once again a year later. Since then I have done a lot of volunteer board work with Goodwill Industries and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. My wife MaryFuller Osborne, a 1957 graduate of HHS, is a retired CPA who has worked more than 20 years as a board member of Pikes Peak Hospice.

I cannot tell you how much so many of us appreciated Pat's work in getting the Hixnews program started and turning it into such a great success.

Ed Osborne

Please add my name to the list of those who are so saddened to hear of Pat's passing. My thoughts and prayers are with her family at this sad time. Surely she will be counted among the angels for all the good she has done while here.
May (Perduto) Horn

My deepest sympathies to all .....
I did not know Pat personally, but I so appreciate what she did for Hicksville HS and keeping all those precious memories alive! Everything she did with the newsletter was a blessing for someone who is so far away from Hicksville. 
Most sincerely,
Barbara Ruggles '79

My name is Nancy Park (North), I am a 1961 Grad. I met Pat many years ago when the newsletter first began. We had a Florida reunion in Orlando at that time.
I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
Nancy North Park

Frank and Family -
"Into his hands..."
She will be missed
--- Walt Schmidt

I don’t know Pat personally, just through her involvement with the Newsletter. If her dedication to all us Alumni through the newsletter is any example of the type person she is then I am truly saddened to have never known her.
I wish her family peace and comfort during this terrible time. My mother spent her last days in hospice recently and I was comforted by the skill and caring of the workers. That, in and of itself is a blessing.

Mike Rosenwasser (’61)

I don't know Pat but have been seeing her name and reading her words in the newsletters. Please forward my wishes for an outcome with as little suffering as possible.
Robin Jacobson '71

G'day Everyone,
I am deeply saddened hear that Pat Driscoll is in hospital gravely ill. I send my sincerest wishes to her & her family & friends. Although I have only known Pat for a relatively short period time, compared to most of you, she has always been a delightful friend and it has be such a pleasure getting to know her. She always kept in touch with me in Australia, China & now in the USA.

I was hoping to visit her when I eventually got back down to Florida. I will send a card, letter & photograph to Cathy.
Although this is devastating news, thank you for passing this information on......
With love & very best wishes to everyone from,
Patti Rees (nee Hickey)

Cathy
I am so sad to hear the news. I met your Mom though the web page. Your Mom Asked me for some certain pictures around Hicksville. Your Mom first started (I was so happy ) sending me email Christmas cards etc. To me she was sent to me as a gift from God. Please give her a huge hug and kiss from Charley Hearon of Hicksville "71"
Love and God bless you
Again I am so sorry
Charley

I don't know Pat personally but feel as though I do. I knew and was friendly with her sister, Flossie, during our high school days. She too was very sweet and personable.

Pat and I spoke on the phone back in 2007 when my Dad passed. She wanted to be sure his obituary would be printed in the upcoming newsletter and that all the information she had was correct.

All of the readers of the HIX newsletter, I am sure, appreciate all Pat's hard work and efforts in putting the newsletter together. Pat's contributions to the newsletter have given so many Hicksville High School graduates the opportunity to connect with old friends and classmates which may not have been possible otherwise. Thank you to Pat for this, I am sure it has been a huge undertaking.

My wishes for Pat and her family are that she has a peaceful passing. May God Bless each of you.
Cathy (Ofenloch)Gensinger '66 

Though I never had the pleasure of knowing Pat personally, my thoughts and prayers go out to her and her children.
Carol Ann Mack Berry '63

Hi,
I met Pat through the Hicksville newsletter. We exchanged email addresses and have been emailing each other ever since. So sorry to hear of her being in hospice, now I know why I haven't heard from her in a while. My prayers are with her. She is such a friendly outgoing person, it is a pleasure to know her.
Joan Siegl Rudolph

Although I didn't know Pat personally I enjoyed her efforts on the HixNews. May she rest in peace.

Walt Gaylor class of 59

A very sad day and loss of someone who cared and contributed to benefit so many of the Hix News readers. Our prayers for Pat's family.

Stan Bryer HHS '60

I'm so sorry to hear about Pat Driscoll. She and her family will be in our prayers her eat the Cathedral. 

James A. Cutropia

To the hardworking editors of the Newsletter –

Don't know if you remember me, but I helped out a little (very little, I am sorry to say!) on some articles for the Newsletter about four or five years ago. I was so sorry to hear the surprising news about Pat. We stayed in touch as “e-mail pals” over the years following and she seemed like a strong human being with a sensitive soul. I have sent a separate letter to her children, but wanted to express my condolences to the editors, who, I am sure will miss her frequent attempts at keeping you out of trouble with the newsletter content!

Kind regards, 

Timothy M. Donovan
Vice President and General Counsel
Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
3500 Sunrise Highway
Great River, NY 11739

G'day Bob,
I just want to Thank you for letting us know of Pat's passing.
I have sent an email to Cathy as below.
Pat really touched so many more people's lives than any of us will ever know.
The Hixnews, email & Facebook made that all possible.
Thanks to the team's tireless effort on keeping us up to date with going's on, even sad news as wonderful people such as Pat leave us.........
Thank you all,
With love & very best wishes to everyone from,
Patti Rees

G'day Cathy, 

I have to thank you sincerely for personally messaging me regarding your mothers passing.
I know it must be a very difficult time for you & the family, but please ...... take comfort in knowing that your mother touched so many people's lives.
Even though I never met your mother personally, I first came to know her through the Hixnews, when I was in Australia, trying to find old friends from Hicksville.
Over the years we grew to know each other through email & Facebook.

So even though it is with great sadness........ 
I'd like to send you this photograph and message in memory of your mother ........ 
Fly away my dear friend Pat, you are free, see you on the sunrise! 
With much love, best wishes and sincerest condolences to everyone from,

Patti Rees

Oh Bob, I am so sorry. I didn't know Pat, but when I got the news about hospice, I felt like she was one of my good friends. I am really saddened by the news of her passing.

Karen Hubner Jenkins, '62

My wife Cindy Died of Cancer.
I just lost another good friend Pat Driscoll.
She helped me through the bad times with my wife. We emailed all most every day. I called her on the phone and we talked. I will miss her alot. I sent her a DVD of our 45th and 50th class reunion two weeks back, I know she did not get to see it. I did not do much in School because I went to work after school to help pay the bills
God Bless Her Family
John De Vaul, Class of 56