Patricia Ann (Polston) Ledgerwood

Patricia Ann Ledgerwood left behind grieving friends and family when she passed away in the early hours of 6 July, 2015 at Golden Living Nursing Home after an extended period of deteriorating health.

She was born 16 December 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana, attended Arsenal Technical High School and married Walter Eugene (Bud) Ledgerwood with whom she spent over fifty years as matriarch of the ever growing family from their home in Union Mills, Indiana.

As residents of Hamlet and Union Mills, she and Bud were past members and youth counselors at Tracy United Methodist Church and were long time associates of the La Porte Airport and the La Porte Aero Club.

She loved her family with a passion and sacrificed much of her personal life to ensure their health and well-being during critical points in all of our lives.

She loved to cook and never let anyone leave her door hungry, she raised African Violets and verdant greenery was everywhere in and around their home.

She was renowned for her tendencies to buck trends, to not go with the flow, and met all of life’s challenges head on.

Preceded in death by her parents, William and America Polston, her sister Nancy Decker, and her brother in law Donald Mann, she is survived by her husband Walter (Bud) Ledgerwood; four sisters, Barbara (Dick) Newkirk, Janice Mann, Betty (William) Aughe, and Billie (Wayne) Urton, mother to Leonard (Melanie) Ledgerwood, Charlotte (Scott) Bolka, Kevin (Ricki) Ledgerwood and her life was further blessed by nine grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren.

She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, July 9, 2015, Essling Funeral Home-Frank L. Keszei Funeral Director, 1117 Indiana Avenue, LaPorte, Indiana.  Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 10, 2015, Essling Funeral Home.  Burial will follow in Union Mills Cemetery.  

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