- Date Of Birth: May 3, 1933
- Date Of Death: November 18, 2012
- State: Illinois
Patricia Ann Perrin Quetsch, a longtime Geneva resident died Sunday Nov. 18, 2012 surrounded by her family at Michaelson Health Center in Batavia.
Patricia was born on May 3, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wis. to Frederick and Dorothy (Kath) Perrin. The Perrins moved to Chicago when Patricia was a child and then to Oak Park, Ill., when she was a teenager. She graduated from Oak Park-River Forest High School in 1951 and then attended Miami of Ohio University. She married her high school sweetheart, James Franklin Quetsch, on Sept. 3, 1956. She and Jim had their first four children when they lived in Oak Park until 1963. Then, they moved to rural West Chicago, where they had two more children and lived for eight years.
In 1971, the family moved to a new house on Kaneville Road in Geneva, where they resided for 38 years.
Pat had many interests and hobbies. She was a voracious reader of books and newspapers.
Pat believed in helping others. She volunteered for Meals on Wheels at Community Hospital in Geneva, mentored students at the Illinois Youth Corrections Center in St. Charles, and served as a “picture lady” at her children’s school, St. Peter in Geneva, introducing the students to works of art.
She also was a two-term Geneva Township Commissioner.
Diminutive in stature (but certainly not in spirit), she was called “Little Grandma” by her grandchildren.
When her children were younger, she was on the PTA at Wayne School in Wayne.
For the past three years, she lived in the Towne Center at the Holmstad in Batavia, where she met many new friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James, in 2009, and her parents.
