Patricia Ann (Barker) Thranert crossed over peacefully to the other side joining loved ones gone before Sunday, April 12, 2015. She passed as she lived, unassuming and in her own way.
Patty was born on 16 October 1942 to Earon and Mildred Barker just three months before Earon would be sent to join the War Effort. It would be three years before she would know her Father as anything other than a framed picture of a man in uniform. Due to her health, she was raised differently than other children having to learn through observation and listening to her elders sharing stories of a bygone era rich with history. Because of that, she saw things from a different perspective and developed her own positively stubborn, eccentric personality and way of living.
She married Robert “Bob James” Thranert in 17 December 1966 starting a new chapter in her life. She had two daughters and started her life as a wife to a local newsman and becoming a devoted Mother and Room Mom. She experienced many things and often shared these recollections, as any dramatic storyteller weaving an elaborate tale sometimes to the dismay of her teenage grandchildren. Though one to avoid social gatherings she had a big heart and would lovingly help all those she cared for. After losing her parents and husband her life centered around her grandchildren. She enjoyed a peaceful retirement; reading and being able to do “…just what she wanted to do”. Knowing all would be well she left behind her daughters, Rebecca and her husband Victor Pickering, Deborah and her husband Joseph Kelley, her grandchildren Steven Pickering, Phoebe & Dominic Burke, Audrey Kelley and her sisters Carolin and her husband Bill Hixon, Rosemary and her husband Bobby Pyle as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other loved ones.
A memorial visitation will held on Thursday, April 16, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Thornhill-Dillon Mortuary Chapel.
A private family Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
Arrangements on under the direction of Thornhill-Dillon Mortuary Joplin, Missouri.
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