This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alexander, Giangregorio Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gV.2ADEB/4121 Message Board Post: (not related - for board info only) Giangregorio, Patricia Ester In Loving Memory of Patricia Ester Giangregorio (1924 - 2006) Pat Giangregorio, died peacefully in the early morning hours of July 8, 2006, with her middle son, Greg at her side. She had battled lung disease for a number of years and at 4 0' clock in the morning, God called her home and reunited her with her beloved husband of 62 years, Dominic. Pat G. (as she was called by many friends) was born in Coalinga. California. in 1924 to Laurence and Betty Alexander. Patsy, as she was affectionately called during her childhood, grew up in Los Angeles. As a child she loved to sing and dance and was a member of the "'Meglin Kiddies" theater group. Pat graduated from John Marshall High School and before the outbreak of World War II she met and fell in love with Dominic Giangregorio. They married on June 27, 1942, not long after Dominic enlisted in the Army. Pat followed her new husband to a training base in Texas and returned to Los Angeles when he was shipped overseas. During the wa! r years she worked as a mail clerk in the aircraft industry. Upon her husband's return from the war they started married life in earnest on Potomac Street in Los Angeles. There Gary, the eldest of the boys, was born. Pat and Dom moved shortly thereafter to Hastings Ranch in Pasadena and Greg and Grant followed to round out their family. Pat was an active member and fundraiser for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church and school in Pasadena. She also volunteered countless hours to the Hastings Ranch Guild of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as well as being a hardworking volunteer at Rosemary's Cottage in Pasadena. Along with her husband, Pat was an avid bridge player and golfer. Together they traveled the world playing golf with friends and enjoying each other's company. She was a member of Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena, Ironwood Country Club in Palm Desert, and the Colony Golf Club in Murrieta. Preceding her in death are her husband, Dominic, and grands! on, Todd, her mother, Betty, her father, Laurence, and her stepfather, Thomas Quinn. Pat was a wonderful mother delighting in her sons and, later, their families. She is survived by her three sons, Gary, Greg and Grant; daughters-in-law Laurie and Kathy, and her grandchildren, Nica, Brent and Andrea. A memorial celebration of her life will be held at Arcadia Gardens Retirement Home, 720 West Camino Real in Arcadia on Saturday, July 15, at 4:30 p.m. Pierce Brothers Simone DuBois Mortuary, assisting the family. (626) 287-0595 Published in the Pasadena Star-News on 7/13/2006.