Patricia A Boswell
(December 29, 1926 – January 19, 2015)
A celebration of life in her honor will be held on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at The Villas of Holly Brook in Shelbyville. Chaplain Tim Haworth of Harbor Light Hospice and Rev. Sam Foskey of the First Presbyterian Church will officiate. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 23, 2015 in the Vienna Fraternal Cemetery, Vienna. Arrangements are by Howe and Yockey Funeral Home, Shelbyville, IL.
Born December 29, 1926, in Wood River, Illinois, Patricia was the elder daughter of Loren Stanley and Hazel Irene Slack Murrie, who owned the Murrie Funeral Home in Vienna. She attended Ward-Belmont School in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She married Dr. John Ronald Boswell in 1951 in Vienna.
Patricia led an active, full life and participated in countless community service clubs and organizations. As an aficionado of the classical arts and music, Patricia became an accomplished interior decorator, artist and school teacher. While residing in Atlanta, Georgia, she mastered the exquisite art of china painting. Lending her business acumen and artistic skills, Patricia owned “A Gallery of Treasurers,” an antiques, fine rugs and interior design store in the heart of Atlanta, which led her and her husband to purchase a beloved antebellum home open to the public for house tours. She also was an avid gardener and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Shelbyville.
She is survived by her husband of 63 years; son, John David Boswell of Los Angeles, California; granddaughter, Julie Patricia Brown of Nashua, New Hampshire; sister, Rebecca Jane Wiley, and brother-in-law, Nelson Wiley, of Shelbyville, IL; and nephews, Mark Walbright and David Walbright, both of Shelbyville and their beautiful, extended families.
She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Rebecca Lou “Mimi” Brown, and grandson, Robert Brown, Jr., both of whom resided in Antrim, New Hampshire.
Memorials in Patricia’s honor may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Shelbyville. Send condolences at www.howeandyockey.com