Patricia Ann Hand

LYONS

Patricia Ann Hand, a long-time resident of Lyons, died Saturday, May 25, 2019 peacefully at home at the age of 82.

Family and friends may call Wednesday, May 28, 2019, from 6-8 p.m.at Weeks-Keysor Funeral Home, 5 Phelps St., Lyons, NY, where a funeral service will be follow at 8 p.m. In accordance with her wishes, she will be cremated and her ashes will be placed with her grandson, Jeremy Paul Wilford, in Clyde NY at St. John’s Cemetery at a later date.

Born in 1936 in the Township of Galen, NY, Patsy was the second youngest of 17 children born to Joseph Hand and Daisy D. Baker/Hand/Voorhees. She was the only child born in the hospital! Patsy’s early career was spent in quality control and later in life, she worked home-care. Patsy spent a number of years travelling the world and helping to take care of her grandchildren.

Patsy always opened her heart and her door for anyone who needed a place to stay or food in their belly. She loved to sit at the kitchen table, have a cup of coffee and talk with friends and family. She always had a smile ready to welcome visitors.  

She is survived by her brother, Donald Hand (of Moravia, NY), her daughters, Rhonda Stoughton (of Rogers, TX) and Catherine Aikin (of Lyons, NY), sons-in-law, Michael Stoughton, James Aikin, and Rob Milliman, 9 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and fifty nieces and nephews. 

She is preceded in death by her oldest daughter, Jodi Lynn Brewster, and her youngest daughter, Rebecca L. Kunes/Milliman (of Lyons, NY), her grandson, Jeremy Paul Wilford (of Orlando, FL), and fifteen of her siblings.

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