PATRICIA ANN (PAT) KAERCHER

Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, sister and great friend, peacefully went to our Lord on January 21, 2017 at 77 years of age.

Pat was born on April 27, 1939 in Jersey City, NJ to James J. and Margaret Carroll and grew up in Verona, NJ with her sisters Joan, Margaret and Catherine. She became a school teacher after earning a degree in English from Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY.

As the result of a blind date, she married Robert C. Kaercher of New Hyde Park, NY in 1964.

Pat is dearly missed by her husband Bob of 52 years and her daughters, Patrice Williams (Ron), Kirsten Bookman (Tommy) and Megan Winger (Andrew) and her five grandchildren, Jared and Logan Williams, Mason and Kate Winger and Quincey Bookman.

A Funeral Mass will be held at 11 AM, Friday, 10 February 2017 at St. Monica Catholic Church, 4301 88th Avenue SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Providence Hospice of Seattle, 425 Pontius Ave. N. #300, Seattle, WA 98109 or www.providence.org/hosdonate.