Patricia Armstrong

A memorial service will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, at the Newman Center in Eugene for Patricia Mees Armstrong of Eugene, who died Nov. 29 of breast cancer. She was 75.

She was born Aug. 17, 1933, in Morristown, N.J., to Samuel and Dorothy Carter Mees. She married Richard Armstrong on April 23, 1955, in Menlo Park, Calif.

She attended Douglass College and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history at the University of California at Berkeley in 1956. She received a master’s degree in education at the University of Oregon in 1969. She taught sixth grade for a year and later taught gifted students and language arts at middle schools in Eugene, Vermont and Guam. She wrote newspaper columns, poems, short stories and books.

Survivors include her husband; three sons, Mark of Bismarck, N.D., Scott of Hillsboro and Tod “Nikki” of Rohnert Park, Calif.; and 14 grandchildren. A granddaughter, Cara Armstrong, died Oct. 6, 1995.

Inurnment will be in Golden Gate Cemetery in San Bruno, Calif. Arrangements by Andreason’s Cremation and Burial Service in Springfield. Remembrances to Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation in Eugene.

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