1. Patricia & Donel Gaddie, 401 Terrace Drive, Wellington, Kansas, 67152
2. Patricia moderates and edits the private Alley Family Website, and is Publisher of the Alley Ancestor News.
3. She is a librarian at the Wellington Public Library.
4. She enjoys traveling, flying, tennis, painting, and spending lots of time with her family.
5. Patricia's own biosketch:
I grew up on a farm in Kansas. I rode horses, drove tractors, planted gardens, and harvested wheat. I liked walking down the country roads. I enjoyed our vacations to the mountains of Colorado, and the rolling green hills of Ireland.
I love my family and friends dearly. I was born in Wichita, Kansas at St. Francis Hospital.
The first 4 years of my life I lived at Woodchuck Lane and Irving in a house that my Father & Mother built just Northwest of Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. The house is no longer there.
From age 4-6 we lived on a wheat farm 5 miles Northeast of Goddard, Kansas where I went hunting with my Father, Dean Audrey Alley & my Grandfather, Samuel David Alley; watched my first Tornado form to the Northwest of the house, chased birds, and played hard.
From age 6-9 we lived in Topeka where my father taught school for a time working for Bell Telephone Co. Then we moved to Pratt, Kansas where dad was Fire Chief. Then we moved back to Wichita, and then to a farm Southeast of Mulvane still age 9. We got out of Topeka right before the big tornado of 1964.
I graduated from Mulvane Sr. High in 1973. I went on to attend Wichita State University, University of Arkansas, and Emporia State University. I graduated from the K-Place program at Emporia State in 1999.
Our family visited Ireland in June of 1999.
I married Don Gaddie. We have two children, Katie & Donnie.
I love life and have many dreams yet to fullfill.
Patricia Faye Alley