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Richard Patrick

November 5, 1935–January 3, 2022

Richard Patrick, lifelong Dayton farmer, passed away at his home on Monday, January 3, 2022. He was 86 years old.

Richard was born November 5, 1935, in Dayton, the first child born in the new Brining Hospital. He was born to Bertle W. and Mae Moody Patrick. Richard attended the Columbia School through the first eight years and then graduated from Dayton High School in 1953.

He learned to work hard at an early age working with his father, and then his first job was for Roy Eslick, a close neighbor, where he earned enough during harvest to buy his first car. This became his family car for the next twenty years.

Richard briefly attended Washington State College but developed migraine headaches and had to come back home. He returned to the family ranch near Dayton and lived his entire life right there.

He married Elaine Sanders November 16, 1956, in Moses Lake, Wash.

Richard went to work for the Farm Bureau and later was employed by the county road crew for many years. After work he would farm until dark.

He took the family to their cabin in the mountains where he kept busy "working." He was a lifetime member of the Dayton Eagles Aerie No. 2618.

Richard was preceded in death by his wife in 2016 and by his son, Perry, in 1990, and by his brother Robert "Bob" in 2020. He will be missed by all who had the pleasure to know him.

He is survived by his daughter Holly and her husband Ken Allen of Electric City, Wash.; two grandchildren, Jason (Allison) Allen and Jamie (Brandon) Roberts, all of Vancouver, Wash.; two great-grandchildren, Shaymus Allen, Ariel, Wash., and Travis Allen, Shelbyville, Ky., sister-in-law Sandra (Joe) Spoonemore of Pullman, and Ileen Patrick of Dayton.

Funeral Services will be held Friday, in the chapel of Corbeill Funeral Home (formerly Hubbard-Rogg) in Dayton on January 7, at 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Dayton Cemetery. Following the service, the Eagles will provide a luncheon at the Senior Center in Dayton.

Memorials may be directed to the Dayton Eagles Aerie or the Dayton Alumni Association.

Corbeill Funeral Home, Dayton, is in charge of the arrangements.