Helen "Pegi" Patterson
May 13, 1941 ~ January 27, 2008

You've been gone now
14 years at the end
of the month of January 2022.

I wish you could see me NOW! It's been hard, but you know me, I'm a dragon slayer/warrior! I'm fighting to bring my life to a sence of real PEACE, HAPPINESS and again improve my health.

I know how proud you are of me. I think of you every single day! How you were obessed with horses & the Oregon Duck Football Team. But with horses,especially the fancy ones that race, show, and even the pretty free wild ones.
I want you to know, that the job I have now, you'd be so thrilled. I sell wood shavings for horses to poop on or use as their bedding. We sell to the simplest small farm boarding places to Vet Hospitals, to racetrack feed stores, and I truly believe our product is the best quality that there is especially here in the West.

Everything reminds me of you. YES, I'm still driving MISS TOYOTA. She's 22 years old now and running strong. On my way home to my brand new apartment, I can see Mt. BrokenTop right in front of me on the last stretch. That is forever your headstone to me. Whenever it is visible I feel a lump in my throat, or a tear to my eyes, or a smile or even a laugh... Depending on how I'm feeling.

I'm so thankful you are not here for the pandemic that started 2 years ago today in the USA. Being that you were a worker in the front lines in the ICU. I'm so glad you are not here to deal with all that. I did get it and it was rough. But, I'm stronger than I often think.

Your darling grandaughters are doing incredible. They are so amazing in their own different ways. 1 more year and they are both adults. SCAREY! I'm so proud of them but I do often weep that you aren't here for them to know you. I know you are watching us, and looking out for us as you promised. I feel you around me, always. LOL, you had a huge IGWANA - Ziggy. Well, due to allergies for your youngest grand-daughter, we have lizards too now. A bearded dragon, named Harley and a Leopard Gecko, named Wasabi. I actually love them as much a one can love a LIZARD. They are fun and make me laugh and smile. So that's their job. They are comforting too, which shocks me.

Your oldest grand-daughter is getting MARRIED, Sept of 2022. She is so happy! She is so smart, so driven, and such a wonderful person! Your 2nd youngest here, she's so entertaining. I don't have words to describe her. But, she's into everything like you were. From the minds of pysco killers to she says she wants to be a psychiatrist or then one day it's nuclear physicist. She is not the sports kind of kid as your oldest was, she's an artist and very articulate. Kids today. The world is nothing like it was when you were here. So much I know you'd be fascinated with though.

I have to giggle when I think about politics. I really don't know how you'd handle what is happening the past 4-5 years with our country. You being so patriotic but also a fan of science. I often wonder "what would Mom think?" I honestly don't know. I really don't.

Now I am at age 55, the age you were told you have your eye cancer. It haunts me that day we sat in the eye doctor's examing room and Dr. Wilson said, Yes, it's eye cancer... melanoma.
We went directly to a restaurant to get SHRIMP and MARGARITAS and you were in such a daze. I think we both were. The whole 2 hour drive home you said over and over, I can't believe I have cancer. Over and over. You were so dazed and confused, and so was I. 6 in 1 million chance - What are the freaking odds of that?
You made it 10 years, and I only expected 5. You fought, you didn't complain, and you were present in the moment giving your remaining years of life QUALITY over QUANTITY (not doing treatments that really wouldn't add any more time, but make that time come sooner and probably sicker). I thank you for that, but I get mad about it too.

Now so many people my age have elderly parents and with you and Dad passed, I'm thankful that I don't have those worries. I hate to say that, but as an OLD MOTHER still having a teenager, I don't know if I could have done what they are doing.

My heart is still breaking over your passing. We had a bond I now know not many MOTHERS & DAUGHTER have. We were each others rocks to the very end. But now, I don't have that support that I had from you, and it's hard with out you.

The pain of your passing is still very real and sometimes hard to ignore. Sometimes I'm angry that we were such a great duo, and that's gone. You were my MOTHER, MY PROTECTOR, MAMMA BEAR. You were my cheerleading section, my biggest fan, and always showed me how loved and I loved hearing how proud you were of me. Now, I rarely have that. Daughter #1 told me recently she was proud of me and it warmed my heart so much! As of course I'm so so proud of them both.

I know, even though I'm back to sickly, fragile, I'm happy for the most part. Trying to live in the moment NOW. The past 14 years are a blur I can't get them back. I regret not being able to be more present for my girls. Having them 1 week then not a week was hard, and Daughter #2 is still doing that routine.But really on her own terms.

So on this 14 year anniversary Jan 27, 2022.. 7:43 am you left for the Tour around the Universe and I truly hope it is all you hoped it would be.
Thank you for being the best darn mom in the world!

I'm still so proud of you, being a part of you, having the relationship I had with you. Even if I didn't get more time with you, I am so thankful that I got what I did. I love you to Pluto and back.

Your daughter, Suzie
Tribute to MOM (powerpoint from service)

Pegi's Ashes were spread on the top of MT. BROKENTOP
Summer 2012

MEMORIAL SERVICE
was held: Saturday, April 19th
Sacred Heart Hospital Auditorium
Eugene, Oregon
4:30 PM ~ 6:00 PM

A gathering after the memorial
was held at the
Oregon Electric Station for those whom would like
to mingle and visit with our family...
We'd love to see you there if you can't make the service.

Also, thank you to everyone! Matt and Suzie really appreciate all your support.
We had a great time seeing everyone that loved our MOM too.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Pegi lost her battle with Ocular Metastatic Melanoma

Born Helen Margaret Winter on May 13th, 1941, Pegi grew up in the farming community of Ontario Oregon.

She graduated from Nyssa High School in 1959. She worked as an RN for approx. 40 total years in various Hospitals and Units.

She went to nursing school at the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Portland Oregon.

She was in the US Airforce Reserves and was a first lieutenant. "Pegi" married Kenneth D. Patterson Jr. in 1965. They had two children, Susan Patterson in 1966 and Matthew Patterson in 1971.

She worked on the floor as an RN at the Hood River Memorial Hospital for many years before moving to Eugnee and becoming an ICU RN at Eugene's Sacred Heart Hospital for 18 years.

She lived in Portland, Hood River, Eugene, before eventually moving to Redmond Oregon in 2004.

She worked at St. Charles of Bend's CCU for the final 2 years of her nursing career before retiring.

She lost a battle with Ocular Metastatic Melanoma and passed away on January 27th, 2008. She is survived by her daughter Susan, 42 Redmond OR and her son Matthew, 37, Phoenix AZ, three grandchildren Lexi, 12, Nicole 4 and Amanda 3.

She was a great mother and grandmother and took tremendous pride in her nursing career.

Anyone that knew Pegi, loved her.

You will be sorely missed by all the people you have touched.

Found another obituary

Pegi was born May 13, 1941, to Wilson and Leona Winter and attended schools in the Nyssa/ Adrian area. She was active in student government, FFA and 4-H.

She served as an Honored Queen in Job’s Daughters and was a member of the high school concert band, receiving high ratings in statewide band and solo festivals. She graduated from Nyssa High School in 1959, moved to Portland, Ore., and received her registered nursing certification from Good Samaritan Hospital.

Following nurse’s training,she served in the Air Force Reserves as a 1st lieutenant before marrying Kenneth D. Patterson in 1965. Pegi and Ken had a daughter, Suzie, in 1966, followed by a son, Matt, in 1971.

During the years in Hood River, Pegi enjoyed her experiences as a mom, trawler fisherman and as an RN at the local hospital. In 1984, Pegi and the kids moved to Eugene, Ore., where she continued her career at Eugene Hospital/Clinic. She then worked in the ICU at Eugene’s Sacred Heart Medical Center in 1987, until moving to Redmond, Ore., to be closer to her daughter in 2004.

After years of tirelessly assisting people with their own medical issues, Pegi retired from Bend’s St. Charles Hospital in 2006 to focus energy on her own battle with ocular melanoma. When cancer finally took her on Jan. 27, 2008, she had fought to the end with her own quiet dignity and tremendous strength.

We will miss her appreciation of laughter, sailing and the sea, sports TV, bengal cats, “going outside for a bit” and her undying love of her children and grandchildren. As a legacy “Gramma Piggy” leaves three beautiful granddaughters, Lexi, Nicole and Amanda; and her children, Suzie, Matt and daughter-in-law, Suzanne. She is survived by her mother, Leona; and brothers, Jon (Dick) and Harley (Sid); her sister, Mary Jean; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Services will be held 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Sacred Heart Hospital Auditorium, Eugene, Ore., on April 19, 2008, followed by a gathering at Eugene’s Oregon Electric Station Restaurant.

If you would like to contact the family, you may contact Susan Patterson (daughter)
via email: surfsuze@gmail.com

Helen "Pegi" Patterson May 13, 1941 ~ January 27, 2008 You've been gone now 14 years at the end of the month of January 2022.
I wish you could see me NOW! It's been hard, but you know me, I'm a dragon slayer/warrior! I'm fighting to bring my life to a sence of real PEACE, HAPPINESS and again improve my health. I know how proud you are of me. I think of you every single day! How you were obessed with horses & the Oregon Duck Football Team. But with horses,especially the fancy ones that race, show, and even the pretty free wild ones. I want you to know, that the job I have now, you'd be so thrilled. I sell wood shavings for horses to poop on or use as their bedding. We sell to the simplest small farm boarding places to Vet Hospitals, to racetrack feed stores, and I truly believe our product is the best quality that there is especially here in the West. Everything reminds me of you. YES, I'm still driving MISS TOYOTA. She's 22 years old now and running strong. On my way home to my brand new apartment, I can see Mt. BrokenTop right in front of me on the last stretch. That is forever your headstone to me. Whenever it is visible I feel a lump in my throat, or a tear to my eyes, or a smile or even a laugh... Depending on how I'm feeling. I'm so thankful you are not here for the pandemic that started 2 years ago today in the USA. Being that you were a worker in the front lines in the ICU. I'm so glad you are not here to deal with all that. I did get it and it was rough. But, I'm stronger than I often think. Your darling grandaughters are doing incredible. They are so amazing in their own different ways. 1 more year and they are both adults. SCAREY! I'm so proud of them but I do often weep that you aren't here for them to know you. I know you are watching us, and looking out for us as you promised. I feel you around me, always. LOL, you had a huge IGWANA - Ziggy. Well, due to allergies for your youngest grand-daughter, we have lizards too now. A bearded dragon, named Harley and a Leopard Gecko, named Wasabi. I actually love them as much a one can love a LIZARD. They are fun and make me laugh and smile. So that's their job. They are comforting too, which shocks me. Your oldest grand-daughter is getting MARRIED, Sept of 2022. She is so happy! She is so smart, so driven, and such a wonderful person! Your 2nd youngest here, she's so entertaining. I don't have words to describe her. But, she's into everything like you were. From the minds of pysco killers to she says she wants to be a psychiatrist or then one day it's nuclear physicist. She is not the sports kind of kid as your oldest was, she's an artist and very articulate. Kids today. The world is nothing like it was when you were here. So much I know you'd be fascinated with though. I have to giggle when I think about politics. I really don't know how you'd handle what is happening the past 4-5 years with our country. You being so patriotic but also a fan of science. I often wonder "what would Mom think?" I honestly don't know. I really don't. Now I am at age 55, the age you were told you have your eye cancer. It haunts me that day we sat in the eye doctor's examing room and Dr. Wilson said, Yes, it's eye cancer... melanoma. We went directly to a restaurant to get SHRIMP and MARGARITAS and you were in such a daze. I think we both were. The whole 2 hour drive home you said over and over, I can't believe I have cancer. Over and over. You were so dazed and confused, and so was I. 6 in 1 million chance - What are the freaking odds of that? You made it 10 years, and I only expected 5. You fought, you didn't complain, and you were present in the moment giving your remaining years of life QUALITY over QUANTITY (not doing treatments that really wouldn't add any more time, but make that time come sooner and probably sicker). I thank you for that, but I get mad about it too. Now so many people my age have elderly parents and with you and Dad passed, I'm thankful that I don't have those worries. I hate to say that, but as an OLD MOTHER still having a teenager, I don't know if I could have done what they are doing. My heart is still breaking over your passing. We had a bond I now know not many MOTHERS & DAUGHTER have. We were each others rocks to the very end. But now, I don't have that support that I had from you, and it's hard with out you. The pain of your passing is still very real and sometimes hard to ignore. Sometimes I'm angry that we were such a great duo, and that's gone. You were my MOTHER, MY PROTECTOR, MAMMA BEAR. You were my cheerleading section, my biggest fan, and always showed me how loved and I loved hearing how proud you were of me. Now, I rarely have that. Daughter #1 told me recently she was proud of me and it warmed my heart so much! As of course I'm so so proud of them both. I know, even though I'm back to sickly, fragile, I'm happy for the most part. Trying to live in the moment NOW. The past 14 years are a blur I can't get them back. I regret not being able to be more present for my girls. Having them 1 week then not a week was hard, and Daughter #2 is still doing that routine.But really on her own terms. So on this 14 year anniversary Jan 27, 2022.. 7:43 am you left for the Tour around the Universe and I truly hope it is all you hoped it would be. Thank you for being the best darn mom in the world! I'm still so proud of you, being a part of you, having the relationship I had with you. Even if I didn't get more time with you, I am so thankful that I got what I did. I love you to Pluto and back. Your daughter, Suzie Tribute to MOM (powerpoint from service) Pegi's Ashes were spread on the top of MT. BROKENTOP Summer 2012 MEMORIAL SERVICE was held: Saturday, April 19th Sacred Heart Hospital Auditorium Eugene, Oregon 4:30 PM ~ 6:00 PM A gathering after the memorial was held at the Oregon Electric Station for those whom would like to mingle and visit with our family... We'd love to see you there if you can't make the service. Also, thank you to everyone! Matt and Suzie really appreciate all your support. We had a great time seeing everyone that loved our MOM too.

Sunday, January 27, 2008 Pegi lost her battle with Ocular Metastatic Melanoma Born Helen Margaret Winter on May 13th, 1941, Pegi grew up in the farming community of Ontario Oregon. She graduated from Nyssa High School in 1959. She worked as an RN for approx. 40 total years in various Hospitals and Units. She went to nursing school at the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Portland Oregon. She was in the US Airforce Reserves and was a first lieutenant. "Pegi" married Kenneth D. Patterson Jr. in 1965. They had two children, Susan Patterson in 1966 and Matthew Patterson in 1971. She worked on the floor as an RN at the Hood River Memorial Hospital for many years before moving to Eugnee and becoming an ICU RN at Eugene's Sacred Heart Hospital for 18 years. She lived in Portland, Hood River, Eugene, before eventually moving to Redmond Oregon in 2004. She worked at St. Charles of Bend's CCU for the final 2 years of her nursing career before retiring. She lost a battle with Ocular Metastatic Melanoma and passed away on January 27th, 2008. She is survived by her daughter Susan, 42 Redmond OR and her son Matthew, 37, Phoenix AZ, three grandchildren Lexi, 12, Nicole 4 and Amanda 3. She was a great mother and grandmother and took tremendous pride in her nursing career. Anyone that knew Pegi, loved her. You will be sorely missed by all the people you have touched.
Found another obituary Pegi was born May 13, 1941, to Wilson and Leona Winter and attended schools in the Nyssa/ Adrian area. She was active in student government, FFA and 4-H. She served as an Honored Queen in Job’s Daughters and was a member of the high school concert band, receiving high ratings in statewide band and solo festivals. She graduated from Nyssa High School in 1959, moved to Portland, Ore., and received her registered nursing certification from Good Samaritan Hospital. Following nurse’s training,she served in the Air Force Reserves as a 1st lieutenant before marrying Kenneth D. Patterson in 1965. Pegi and Ken had a daughter, Suzie, in 1966, followed by a son, Matt, in 1971. During the years in Hood River, Pegi enjoyed her experiences as a mom, trawler fisherman and as an RN at the local hospital. In 1984, Pegi and the kids moved to Eugene, Ore., where she continued her career at Eugene Hospital/Clinic. She then worked in the ICU at Eugene’s Sacred Heart Medical Center in 1987, until moving to Redmond, Ore., to be closer to her daughter in 2004. After years of tirelessly assisting people with their own medical issues, Pegi retired from Bend’s St. Charles Hospital in 2006 to focus energy on her own battle with ocular melanoma. When cancer finally took her on Jan. 27, 2008, she had fought to the end with her own quiet dignity and tremendous strength. We will miss her appreciation of laughter, sailing and the sea, sports TV, bengal cats, “going outside for a bit” and her undying love of her children and grandchildren. As a legacy “Gramma Piggy” leaves three beautiful granddaughters, Lexi, Nicole and Amanda; and her children, Suzie, Matt and daughter-in-law, Suzanne. She is survived by her mother, Leona; and brothers, Jon (Dick) and Harley (Sid); her sister, Mary Jean; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Services will be held 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Sacred Heart Hospital Auditorium, Eugene, Ore., on April 19, 2008, followed by a gathering at Eugene’s Oregon Electric Station Restaurant. If you would like to contact the family, you may contact Susan Patterson (daughter) via email: surfsuze@gmail.com ©2008-2022 Pegi Patterson's Family