Patricia Sue Ladd, 78

Patricia was born on January 2nd in 1944 in a little house on a farm that her parents, John Dick Ladd and Emma Evans-Ladd owned in fordland. She had 13 siblings she grew up with, the only surviving of the siblings is her brother and his wife, Robert and Simiko Ladd. Her surviving sisters and their husbands, Grace Sinclair, Sharron and John Mammorella, Peggy and David Neil, and Brenda and Keith Johnson. In Patricia's lifetime, she only had one child, Daniel Ladd.

Growing up, she would help her family pick wild berries to store for the winters harvest, and by doing so, berry picking became a much loved hobby of hers. If you were lucky, you would've caught a glimpse of her at Wilson's Creek Park in Battlefield Missouri picking wild berries to her heart's content during the summers. Although Patricia had many hardships, she will be remembered by having the sweetest disposition towards others. She lit up everyone's day with just a smile and touched the souls of many with her heartwarming embraces. With an angel watching over her, Patricia carried on the kindness one would envy for themselves.

For a short time, she joined her sister Sharron at Zenith, working the chassis line, manufacturing TVs. With love in her heart, Patricia gave back to her community by joining her sister Peggy in the healthcare industry, but spreading her wings in her own direction, taking care of the elderly and coming home every other weekend to see her son.

When she moved to a twenty acre farm on the north side of Seymour, where she stayed with her son, her eyes would light up at around late spring when her favorite flowers, white daisies, would bloom. When available, there would be a Bouquet of daisies sitting near her.

While she was at home, she would relax and watch westerns via movie or TV show. Occasionally, Patricia would stand at her kitchen window and admire the numerous deer that lived in the timber around her house.

Patricia was famous throughout her family by the amazing dishes she made for the holidays. Loved by all were her signature gooseberry cobblers, blackberry cobblers, coconut crème pies, egg noodle soup from scratch, and homemade cashew chicken. The memory that will live on forever is her world renowned fried chicken. If you haven't had her fried chicken, you missed out. But if you had, it's a taste your mouth won't readily forget.

Unfortunately, she was met with an untimely death on October 26th of 2022. She passed in the early morning at a hospital in Springfield with the request to be cremated and her remains spread where her happiest moments will live on forever.