{"id":13865,"date":"2022-11-17T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:28:55","slug":"patricia-anne-roach-elkader-iowa-november-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2022\/11\/patricia-anne-roach-elkader-iowa-november-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Anne Roach, Elkader, Iowa, November 16, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Patricia A. Roach, 90 passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 16, 2022, surrounded by love.\u00a0 Patricia was born October 13, 1932, to Thomas & Nelly (Kelly) Bergan in Arlington, Iowa.<\/p>\n

She graduated from St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School in 1950.\u00a0 After graduation she went to college for one year and then worked as a operator at the Northwestern Bell telephone company in Elkader.<\/p>\n

She married Michael J Roach in 1956, and they were married 59 years until Mike\u2019s passing in 2015.\u00a0 To this union four children were born. Michael, Janet, Anita & Teresa.<\/p>\n

After years of traveling with the Air Force they retired back in Elkader where Pat enjoyed reconnecting with other people in her home town,\u00a0 spending time with her brothers and sisters-in laws, playing cards with family and friends.\u00a0 She was an avid reader and loved to put her knowledge from reading to test playing along with her Jeopardy game shows. Pat loved to travel and on one of her last trips with her grandson Jason, was able to see Niagara Falls.\u00a0 She loved seeing her grandchildren whenever possible and was looking forward to her first great grandchild due in January.\u00a0 Pat enjoyed cooking and liked to catch up with what was going on from Facebook.<\/p>\n

She is survived by her children, Janet (Doug) Whittle, Anita (Kevin) Potter, Teresa (John) Schneider; six grandchildren, Jason, Andrew and Jacob Whittle, Daniel (Kristen) Potter, Nick (Dayna) Schneider, Matthew (Allison) Schneider; one great grandchild on the way; two brothers, Mike (Ruth) Bergan and Bernard Bergan and one sister, Catherine Thornton as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.<\/p>\n

Pat was preceded in death by her husband Mike; son Michael; her parents; her brother and sister-in-law Joe & Marilyn Bergan; brother- in -law Daryl Thornton; sister-in-law Maureen Bergan and two<\/p>\n

nephews, Steven and Brad Bergan<\/p>\n

VISITATION<\/strong>: Monday, November 21, 2022 from 4 PM to 7PM at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Elkader<\/p>\n

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Tuesday, November 22, 2022, at 10:30AM at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Elkader with Rev. John Haugen as Celebrant<\/p>\n

INTERMENT<\/strong>: Will follow at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Elkader<\/p>\n

Memorial Contributions may be directed to Mercy One Elkader \u2013 Ambulance Fund.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patricia A. Roach, 90 passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 16, 2022, surrounded by love.\u00a0 Patricia was born October 13, 1932, to Thomas & Nelly (Kelly) Bergan in Arlington, Iowa. She graduated from St Joseph\u2019s Catholic School in 1950.\u00a0 After graduation she went to college for one year and then worked as a operator at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-13865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-roach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13870,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions\/13870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}