|
- |
Patricia Pascoe Jones of Fredericksburg died Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at her home. She had ovarian cancer.
Born in 1944 in Loma Linda, Calif., Pat lived in Berkeley with her parents until her family moved to Arlington when she was 11 years old.
She married her husband, Harry, while she was an undergraduate at Mary Washington College, later completing her degree in languages and linguistics in 1980. After her husband entered the Foreign Service of the Department of State, they lived together in Turin, Italy; Santiago de los Caballeros and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic; London; Mexico City; Poznan, Poland; Lisbon; Tel Aviv; and Madrid.
She was an accomplished linguist and spoke fluent French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish. Overseas, she was the head of outreach for the American School of Madrid, and a community liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, and she edited the U.S. mission newsletters in Santo Domingo, Lisbon and Madrid.
She and her family moved to their current home in Fredericksburg in 1979, leaving for overseas tours every few years until 1998, when they returned for good.
She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Harry; her children, Michael of Caroline County, Christopher of Fredericksburg, and Anne Jones Manning of Washington, D.C.; and a granddaughter, Catherine, of Caroline.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at St. George's Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg. Her cremated remains will be buried in the churchyard.
Online guest book at covenantfuneralservice.com.
