Her last memories were of her son, grandson and great grandson playing together on the green lawn in front of the dining room at Kendal of Lexington where "Patty" Harriet Thomas died on Nov. 26, 2024.

Born on March 21, 1926, to Mildred Hull and Charles Allen Inglesby in Jacksonville, Fla., she then lived her entire childhood and young adult life in Savannah, Ga., where she attended and graduated from the Savannah County Day School and then attended and graduated from Swarthmore College. 

In 1949 she met and married Carlson R. Thomas in Savannah, after trying out for and winning the lead in a play that Mr. Thomas was producing and directing for Armstrong College. Soon after they moved to Ohio where Mr. Thomas taught at Ohio University, then to Lexington where he taught at Washington and Lee University.

Throughout their 60 years of marriage, Patty was his devoted wife and the mother of three children, George, Charles and Margaret. She was also a constant companion and motherly friend to daughter Margaret, who died of diabetic complications in 2014.

Patty will be remembered by all who knew her as a cheerful, affable, and proper lady who would never miss an opportunity to chat. She rarely, if ever, had a bad day and was the bedrock of the Thomas family. 

She will be missed, but her memory will linger through her two surviving sons, George and Charles, their wives, Laura and Barbara, grandsons, Josh and Will, and great-grandchildren, Theo, Quinn and Kairo. In addition, Charles's wife by a previous marriage has grandsons Stephen and John, their wives Anna and Kim, each with two children, Andrew, Nathan, Ella and Leah.

A graveside service at the Oak Grove Cemetery will take place at a later date. 

Memorial contributions may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in her name.