Patricia Ann Temple Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Patricia Ann Temple was born December 18, 1936 in Center, Texas (Shelby County), and died June 5, 2014 in Houston. Patricia graduated from South Park High School in Beaumont in 1955. She received her Diploma in Nursing in 1958 from Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Beaumont. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1962 from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. After working for Dr. L. M. Williams in Beaumont as his Office Nurse, she became Relief Charge Nurse of the Emergency Room at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont from 1958 to 1960. She worked as the Head Nurse of Surgical Nursing, from 1960-1961 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In 1962 she became Head Nurse of Surgical Nursing in Houston at Methodist Hospital. She later became Relief Supervisor of Surgical Nursing and the Emergency Room and then became Supervisor of the Renal Transplant Unit and the Left Ventricular Bypass Unit. From 1974 until her retirement after 38 years in 2000, she was Assistant to the President of Methodist Hospital. Patricia was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Eula Temple. She is survived by two uncles, R.T. Bobbitt and wife Johnnie, and T. H. (Tommy) Bobbitt and numerous cousins including Earl Potter and his wife, Dianna, and W.C. Bobbitt and his wife, Shirley. She is also survived by her long-time friend and caregiver, Betty Dozier. Patricia was the godmother to Benjamin, Christina, and Samuel Wilson and to Jonathan and Holly Horton. She was the unofficial godmother to many more children. Patricia devoted her life to her family, her friends, her nursing profession, and to the countless patients she cared for at Houston’s Methodist Hospital. She was active in the Houston Area Parkinson Society and a member of the American Hospital Association. Patricia’s Memorial Service is 3:30-5:30pm, Tuesday, June 17 at Dettling Funeral Home located at 14094 on Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas, 77079. Her final resting place will be alongside her mother and father in the Bobbitt family Cemetery near Hemphill, Texas.

Patricia Ann Temple

December 18, 1936 - June 5, 2014

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Patricia Ann Temple

December 18, 1936 - June 5, 2014

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