Patricia Arlene Stewart, age 80 passed away on Sunday, November 19, 2017, at Arbor Grove Village Nursing Home in Greensburg, Indiana.

She was surrounded by loving family.

She was born to the late Robert Dale Stewart and Mary Julia Fiscus Stewart on October 20, 1937.

She was raised in Clarion County, Pennsylvania on her family’s farm in Reidsburg.

Patricia graduated from Clarion Area High School and continued her education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receiving her RN degree from West Penn Hospital.

She worked for many years at West Penn and held various positions including supervisor of the operating rooms.

She spent her nursing career working at hospitals in Chicago, West Penn and St. Francis hospitals in Pittsburgh, and later retired from a Johns Hopkins affiliate hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

She built a beautiful home in Lewes, Delaware to be close to the beach which she loved.

She spent time fishing, reading, traveling and tending to her beloved animals, many of them strays.

Her other love was the Pittsburgh Steelers.

She had Steeler memorabilia scattered throughout her home.

She spent many hours with her friends and was on the social committee for the community where she lived.

Ms. Stewart is survived by one brother, Gordon Stewart (Dee) of Mason, OH, and two sisters, Paula Stewart Ondrako (Jim) of Batesville, IN and Julia Stewart Dischler (Steve) of Sauk City, Wisconsin, and one step-sister, Winona Grant Ace of Foxburg, PA. She is also survived by three sisters-in-law: Yvonne Stewart, Elaine Stewart and Sylvia Stewart and several nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.

In addition to her parents, Patricia was preceded in death by her brothers Robert Stewart, James Stewart, Joseph Roger Stewart, her stepmother Emma Grant Stewart and three stepbrothers: James Grant, Harold Grant, Lavern Grant and one step-sister: Doris Grant Craig.

Patricia’s legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of everyone she interacted with, as well as those she touched through her involvement with many alcohol and drug programs. Support for her kindness, loyalty, and compassion may be shown by volunteering or donating to your local Humane Society, or to the Dementia Association of America.

A favorite verse which Pat kept by her bedside read, Giving – One of the life’s greatest rules . . . “You cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own.” Her light not only shone brightly, but she made all those around her feel care for and loved.

A memorial service will be held at Robert Burns Funeral Home in Clarion, Pennsylvania on a date to be announced in the future. She will be laid to rest next to her mother at the Catholic Clarion Cemetery.

Meyers Funeral Home in Batesville, IN is assisting the family with the arrangements.

Online condolences may be left at www.meyersfuneralhomes.com.