Patricia Hendrickson
March 29, 1929 ~ May 27, 2023
Patricia Ann Lindburg Hendrickson entered Heaven on May 27, 2023, at the age of 94.
She was born March 29, 1929, in Osage City, Kansas, to John Raymond Lindburg and Elva Margarette Dorr. She attended college in Pittsburg, Kansas, and taught one year at a Kansas one-room schoolhouse. She came to love Colorado when she spent a summer near Fort Collins working on a dude ranch.
On June 6, 1952, Pat married Ernest Arthur Hendrickson in Osage City, Kansas. Pat stayed home while Ernie served a tour of duty as a Lieutenant in the Korean War. The couple moved to Englewood, Colorado, to manage a carnation greenhouse. Pat and Ernie raised two daughters, Tracy Lyn and Paula Kay in Englewood. Pat and Ern were partners in their wholesale greenhouse until selling out and moving to Lafayette, Colorado. Ernie accepted a position as manager of greenhouse producing carnation cuttings to other wholesalers. After putting the two daughters through high school in Lafayette, the Hendricksons felt the lure of farming. They bought a farm in Bartlett, Kansas, in 1974 and stayed there until 2005.
Pat enjoyed books, cats, birds, history, flowers and crispy fried chicken. She served as judge at many county fairs and volunteered at her local library. Pat and Ern retired to a house in nearby Owego, Kansas. They were members of First lo; United Methodist Church of Oswego.
Ernie passed away in 2016 and Pat decided in 2022 to move to Meeker, Colorado, to be close to her family. Pat was preceded in death by Ernest, her husband of 64 years; her parents; older brother Kenneth Lindburg; and daughter Paula Kay Hendrickson Beck. She is survived by daughter Tracy Lyn Hendrickson Peck; sons-in-law Ed Peck of Meeker and Eddie Beck of Webster Grove, Missouri; granddaughter Diana (Joshua) Harrison of Meeker; granddaughter Marcia (Wes) Sanders of Chapel Hills, North Carolina; one grandson, Nathan Beck; and one great-granddaughter, Raegan Harrison.
The family would like to praise the compassionate care she received at Pioneers Medical Center. She will be missed by friends and family as one who has a sharp wit and great sense of humor. Her cremated remains will be interred in Osage City, Kansas. In lieu of flowers, her family would encourage donations to the Oswego Kansas Library.
