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Patricia Gordon at her 95th birthday party held at Timaru South School hall last year. She died on November 17.
Timaru great-great grandmother Patricia ‘Pat’ Gordon is remembered adoringly by her 14 children, and by her many other descendants, for always making time for people, despite running around after such a big family. Pat died at the age of 96 at Margaret Wilson Rest Home, her residence of the past seven years, surrounded by family on November 17. Pat was born in 1924, the year the USSR leader Vladimir Lenin died, the first trans global radio transmission was sent from New Zealand to London by Frank Bell on his family’s sheep farm in Otago, and Kiwi Arthur Porritt won the bronze medal in the Paris Olympics 100-metre sprint.