In the 80s Pat and Wes and their friends got season tickets to the Aggie football games and she spent many weekend in College Station thru the 2000 season. In later years Pat was active with Church Women United and the Texas City Day Nursery. And she could be counted on to deliver a midnight run of “special sauce” to the men BBQing the chickens the night before the Festival. In preparation for the annual Spring Festival at the church you knew you were going to see her making thousands of confetti eggs. Michael’s she was, at various times, a Sunday school teacher, member of the vestry, choir, and alter guild, and served as the Day School secretary for many years. One of her best friends was made through Beta Sigma Phi. She served in many roles over the years attaining the Laureate degree and receiving the Order of the Rose. She joined Beta Sigma Phi, an international women’s sorority focusing on life, learning, and friendship, in January 1952 in Charleston and was a paid for life member. Pat was very active in her church and in the community. She finally did speak to him and they married Octoat St. He sent her a post card every day with his bowling score or from the Seattle World’s Fair trip that he went on with his mother and a couple of her friends. When Wes proposed she thought he was joking and wouldn’t speak to him for 2 weeks. They dated for 2 years often taking Lynn on dates with them dressed up in one of the many bridesmaids dresses Pat had worn over the years. She said she fell in love with his arms and would have married him right then. Pat resisted for 4 months, but gave in and went on a blind date in August 1960 meeting the love of her life, Wesley Haskins. The other woman wanted to introduce Pat to a young man who went to her church and worked with her husband. In early 1960 she and her mother were at a wedding and met another woman, they were the only three wearing hats and gloves. She lived with her sister for 6 months helping with her other nieces then got her first apartment off OST. She said she decided she liked it so she went home, gave 2 weeks’ notice at her job, packed all her stuff in her car, and drove to Texas. In 1959 she came to visit her sister’s family that had just moved to Houston. She joked that for the longest time she was “the rich old maid aunt” and she happily spoiled her nieces and nephews. She graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School in Charleston in 1948. She was a brilliant student and voted class wit in high school. Pat was a mischievous child and would tell the story of being set on the top of the principal’s bookcase as punishment in first grade. Pat was a preemie and not expected to survive but not only did she survive but she thrived. and Reba Dean (Hollandsworth) Griffiths and the only one her father got to name. She was the 3rd of 5 children of Carl Llewellyn Griffiths Sr. Pat was born in Charleston, WV on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1930, weighing just 3 lbs when the turkey weighed 26. Patricia Ann (Griffiths) Haskins (87) of Houston, formerly of La Marque, passed away Tuesday, November 20, 2018.
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