[Tall-Corn] FW: Gary patterson obituarym

Wade Hemmelrick cheeriosandv8 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 06:16:54 UTC 2020


Although I did not know him personally, I remember watching Gary
Patterson on one of those Orientation Center promotional films we
students had to watch hot off the press. Rest In Peace, Sir.

On 11/23/20, Bob Ray via Tall-Corn <tall-corn at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I would add to this that Gary was a member of the NFB of Iowa for more than
> fifteen years.
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> Bob Ray
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> Gary Francis Patterson
> SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 – NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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> Gary Francis Patterson passed away unexpectedly on 16 November 2020
> following a fall at his home in Des Moines, Iowa. Gary was born with
> congenital glaucoma and aniridia in San Diego on September 15, 1944 to
> Frances and Walter Lampkin. At the end of WWII, Frances moved back to
> Wichita Falls, TX raising Gary until her marriage to Wayne O. Patterson in
> 1948.
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> Gary endured multiple surgeries on his eyes to relieve pressure from the
> glaucoma before age 3, eliminating the need to remove his eyes until he was
> an adult. At the age of 5, Gary was enrolled as a live-in student at the
> Texas School for the Blind in Austin. The rest of his immediate family moved
> to Austin in 1952. He was a member of the wrestling team and the track team
> while in high school and was fluent in Spanish. He graduated as
> Valedictorian in 1962. He then worked for 4 years as a piano tuner for San
> Antonio Music Company before attending Southwest Texas State College (now
> Texas State in San Marcos) for 1 year before transferring to the University
> of Texas in Austin. He married and moved to Des Moines, Iowa, finishing his
> degree from Iowa State University in Ames with a major in Math and minor in
> Computer Science. He worked for 33 years for American Republic Life
> Insurance Company in Des Moines as a computer programmer. Gary had a subtle
> sense of humor. Once, when his mother came for a visit, Gary reserved her a
> rental car and insisted on going in to pick up the car. It was regrettable
> that he was unable to see the clerk’s reaction to the blind man standing at
> the counter waiting to pick up his rental car! He continued his interest in
> computers until his death, utilizing new inventions for the visually
> handicapped – a bar code reader, color identifier (he could “see” the colors
> of his clothes), table top camera which fed to his laptop to "read" labels,
> and various voice synthesizing devices and mechanical reading devices. He
> was adamant and active in efforts regarding the retention and teaching of
> Braille for the visually handicapped. He enjoyed woodworking, Sudoku,
> reading and cooking, especially Mexican food. He had an affinity for
> mathematics and had a voracious interest in money management and financial
> news. He was raised to be independent, overcoming many challenges from his
> lack of sight and he traveled extensively. He toured the Baltic Sea
> countries and England by himself. He was single and living independently at
> the time of his death. Gary is survived by a daughter, Antoinette E. Smith,
> of Cypress, TX and a son, John Patterson of Des Moines, IA and 4
> grandchildren, Theodore and Maxwell Smith and Riley and Willow Patterson. He
> is also survived by a sister, Ann M Patterson of Denton, TX, as well as
> numerous cousins in Michigan and Texas.
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