Patricia Kathryn Daley

Patricia Kathryn Daley, age 75, of Grants Pass, died Saturday, April 23, 2011 at Highland House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Family services will be held. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Remembrances may be made to Asante Hospice, 2960 Doctors Park Drive, Medford, Oregon 97504.

Patricia was born June 6, 1935 in Santa Monica, California to Stuart & Doris Lillingston. On July 20, 1957 in Las Vegas, Nevada she married Jerome R. Daley and they had four children. In 1967 she moved with her family from Los Angeles to the Rogue Valley. She was a homemaker and in the early 1980s earned a psychology degree at Rogue Community College. She moved to Widbey Island, Washington with her husband where they were group foster parents for delinquent teenagers. In the mid 1980s they returned to the Rogue Valley.

Patricia loved to laugh, dance, listen to all types of music, camp, fish, and cook. She lived life to the fullest and will be truly missed by those who loved and knew her.

Survivors include a son, Patrick Daley of Grants Pass, Oregon; a daughter, Susan “Suzi” Francis of Rogue River, Oregon; a sister, Penelope Greenamyer of Jacksonville, Oregon; two brothers, Porter Thompson of Hampton, Virginia, Frank Loew of Idaho; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerome R. Daley in 1989; two daughters, Julie Daley in 1956 and Dawn Caropreso in 2009; her parents; a brother, Stewart Lillingston; and a great-grandson, Michael D. Caropreso.