Jo
Evelyn Patterson
Rochester
Jo Evelyn Patterson, 87, lifelong resident of
Rochester passed away, Saturday morning, June
23, 2012 at Munday Nursing Home in Munday.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m.,
Monday, June 25, 2012, at Weinert Foursquare
Church with Rev. Rob Harrison and Rev. Jim Reid
officiating. Burial will be at Rochester
Cemetery under the direction of Smith Family
Funeral Homes. Family will be receiving friends
Sunday evening, June 24, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
at the funeral home in Rochester.
Jo Evelyn Russell was born August 10, 1924, in
Haskell County to Paul and Ruth (Davenport)
Russell. She attended school at New Mid and
Dennis Chapel in her early years and graduated
from Rochester High School in 1942. She married
W.H. Patterson in Lovington, New Mexico on March
16, 1957. Jo Evelyn is a member of Weinert
Foursquare Church and the Rochester Woman Club.
She is preceded in death by her husband, W.H.
Patterson; an infant child, Clarence Paul; her
parents, Paul and Ruth Russell; a brother,
Kenneth Russell; and a niece and nephew.
Jo Evelyn is survived by her 2 daughters, Sharon
Brinson and husband Dolan, and Karen Byrd and
husband Clifford all of Rochester; 1 son, Pat
Patterson of Rochester; 6 grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren; 2 sisters, Betty Ruth White
and husband Ray of Rochester, and Barbara Lee of
Odessa; 1 brother, Ricki Russell and wife
Margaret of Rochester; and many nieces, nephews,
great-nieces, and great-nephews that loved her
very much.