Patricia A. Samples

Patricia Samples a long time Moses Lake resident passed away in the arms of her loving family on Friday, April 5th after a long illness. She grew up in Winfield, Alabama but had lived all over the southern United States to include Texas, Tennessee, Vegas and California. Pat was a retired Registered Nurse. She loved helping people and would lend a helping hand be it giving money to someone in need or actually bringing them home with her. She loved watching Vampire and science fiction movies with her kids and passed that to her children. She loved to camp and picnic and was quite the dancer in her youth. She had a great love of good music and appreciated a good dance in the living room. Pat began with very humble beings from an EXTREMELY poverty stricken home and difficult life during the depression to excelling in school and putting herself through college to pursue her nursing career. She had an extreme love of animals and was a long-time supporter of the Grant County Animal Outreach. She would prefer in lieu of flowers donations to the animal outreach at www.grantcountyanimaloutreach.com or mail donations to 6725 Randolph Road, Moses Lake, WA 98837. Her appreciation for Manta Ray swim team during Gladys’ swimming caused great joy to her as a family atmosphere as swim team members as well as her family. Pat LOVED belonging to the swim team during the summers and looked forward to swim meets wherever they may be. She had an awesome generous heart, she gave so much to so many and never thought twice about making a sacrifice if she could help or give to someone else. She always wanted to give to her children as she went without a great deal. She was even more generous with herself towards her grandchildren and spent a great deal of time playing and enjoying them. Time well spent on the floor playing dolls, cars or making doll houses out of magazine pages and cardboard boxes. Wonderful members her family will treasure. Her great grandchildren were “precious” and she could not have loved them anymore. Her last smiles were of those who she loved the most, Darrel and her kids. She loved and cherished all and they were blessed for this unconditional love. She is survived by Darrel Isaak, children Catherine and Wayne Conley, Thomas Samples, Gladys and Tom Shirey and Roberta Samples, grandchildren, Samantha and Steve Vineyard, Sara Conley, Patricia “Tricia”, Dylan and Ian Shirey, Penelope and Marissa Samples, Tiffany and Tyler Harvey, and Monteque Cowens and great-grand- children Azaray and Anthony Alvarez and Wesley Vineyard. Blessed are those who were lucky to know Patricia Samples the most generous heart. Holy Rosary and a celebration of life service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 13, 2013 at Kayser's Chapel. Inurnment will be in Guarding Angels Cemetery.

Patricia A. Samples

June 14, 1938 - April 5, 2013