Pat McElroy
The following was in the December 6, 1996 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Patricia K. (McElroy) Wolfe, 50 a Moscow Idaho native and long time area resident died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday at her home in Tekoa Wash.
She was born Dec. 18, 1945 to Donald and Julia Maston McElroy in Moscow, where she was reared and educated.
She began working as a nurse's aid at Good Samaritan Village in Moscow in 1964. In 1976, she moved to Grangeville Idaho, and worked at Good Samaritan Center there.
In 1984, she moved to Worley Idaho and began working at the Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Fairfield Wash. She was employed as a van driver at the time of her death.
She married Leon Wolfe Aug 14, 1985, in Tekoa, where they made their home. She had been previously married and divorced.
She was a member of the Tekoa Jaycees Club and a former member of the Moose Lodge in Moscow. She enjoyed traveling and camping, making latch-hook rugs and watching boxing and hockey games. She also collected salt and pepper shakers.
She is survived by her husband at Tekoa; two sons, James O'Meara of Boise and Bill O'Meara of Spokane; three stepdaughters, Laurie Hokenson of Farmington, Wash., Kathy Smith and Betty Jean Wicklund, both of Tekoa; two brothers, John McElroy of Pendleton, Ore., and Denny McElroy of Ketchikan, Alaska; 11 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
A private family funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Kramer Funeral Home in Tekoa with Pastor Gary Moore of the Zion Lutheran Church officiating. Cremation will follow the service.
Memorials may e made to the Tekoa Ambulance Fund or to the Fairfield Good Samaritan Center.