Mary Patrick Giesler

Mary Elizabeth Patrick Giesler, 93, passed away Tuesday December 30, 2008 in Corsicana Texas. Mary was a member of Circle 5 at the First Methodist Church of Corsicana, the Literary Club and the Pan American Round Table. Visitation will be 4-6pm at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home Friday January 2, 2009. Graveside services will be at Hillcrest Cemetery Temple Texas at 11am Saturday January 3, 2009. She will be buried along side her devoted late husband Leonard D. Giesler, who worked many years for the Ford Motor Company in liaison with Ford Dealers in the Houston-South Texas area. "Mary Pat", born August 19, 1915 in Waco, Texas was a daughter of A.N.S. Patrick and Effie Lee Middleton, her father worked 45 years for the Southern Pacific Railroad, Patrick family lived in Waco, Shreveport, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Brown eyed Mary, 5ft. 2, 110lbs, graduated 1933 Byrd High School, Shreveport, LA., member of National Honor Society, Class officer, Most Popular Girl, Mardi Gras Princess, Princess Tyler Rose Festival . She represented Corpus Christi at the San Antonio Battle of Flowers. After graduating from Brownsville Texas Junior College, she studied in Houston to be a Legal Secratary. Her first job was with a prominent Brownsville attorney. "Mary Pat" worked for Pan American Airways in Brownsville as Secretary to the company Chief Pilot. She scheduled all the company Pilots flight times- this busy job led her careet to Houston, Miami, New York and Europe. Her airplane visits to Central and South America were before flying comforts and good safety measures. "Mary Pat's" career and personal travels let her joyfully sit alongside pilots steering "Flying Boats" embarking San Francisco to points in Asia. She rode alongside Pilots into London, Rome and Paris. She was in Berlin immediately after the "Berlin lift" ended. She participated in the last landing of Pan America Airways. Mary is preceded in death by her brother James W. Patrick and wife Jane McGinley Patrick of League City Texa. She is survived by her brother Arthur Patrick Jr. and wife Doris Ivy Patrick of Richland Texas, their son Stephen M. Patrick of Sante Fe, New Mexico, their daughter Ann S. Littrell and husband Lee-Edward Littrell and children Selena Nan mathis and "Lee" Rusty Littrell Jr. of Corsicana. her beloved nephews Robert Scott Patrick and wife Linda Wheeler Patrick of Deer Park Texas, James Michael Patrick and son Shannon of Houston Texas, a cherished friend from childhood Dorothy Tomme Morgan of Corsicana. The family expressed their love and thanks to Debra Evans and Loretta Beachum, and many others too many to list for "Aunt" Mary's many years of good and loving care.

Mary Patrick Giesler

August 19, 1915 - December 30, 2008