Friday, January 22, 2021
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Who could have ever predicted that a chance encounter because of a canceled second leg of a trip to CA would create a friendship that would last for over 10 years? The minute I met Pat in that airport in Atlanta, I knew we would be great friends. We spent our overnight layover getting to know each other at the hotel bar where we learned that we were both from Chapel Hill and had mutual acquaintances. As the saying goes…the rest is history.
We had so many things in common and over the years enjoyed going to movies, dinners, and theater together, not to mention our long phone conversations where we fixed all the worlds problems, including some of our own. We laughed, we cried, we joked about being sisters from another mother and another planet.
Pat was a kind and good friend…a great listener, a wonderful resource for all things medical, a lover of animals and she was smart and beautiful inside and out. She was sassy, witty and creative. She made a big difference in the lives she touched by taking so little and giving so much.
Her horrendous diagnosis did not know what it was up against! Pat was truly a warrior princess during all she endured over these past few months. She will be terribly missed and without her, the Universe is now sadly less than it was.
My heart is broken by this terrible and sudden loss. Pat, I will miss you dearly, but I am so grateful for having known you.
Marcia DiMartino
