Larry Patterson
A funeral for Larry Alan Patterson was Oct. 20 in Highlands
Ranch. Mr. Patterson of Parker died Oct. 14 in Aurora. He was
61.
Interment will be in Memorial Cemetery, LeMars, Iowa, where Mr.
Patterson was born on March 27, 1943. He was the son of Arnold and
Gladys (Lundgren) Patterson.
Mr. Patterson attended high school at LeMars Central and
graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with a
bachelor’s degree in history.
After growing up in LeMars and graduating high school, Mr.
Patterson joined the U.S. Navy and was stationed in northern
Germany and Scotland. He began his career in the U.S. Defense
Department in 1967. He married Caroline Wardle in Yorkshire,
England, in 1968 and the couple raised three children.
During their marriage they lived in England, Germany and the
United States. They divorced, and he married Karen Jean Eason on
Aug. 14, 1998, in Alice Springs, Australia.
He retired after 30 years with the government and worked as a
technical services specialist for Boeing.
Mr. Patterson is survived by his wife of Parker; son Robert of
London; daughters Colleen Huber of Highlands Ranch and Genevieve of
London; four grandchildren; and sisters Jeannine Kleihauer of
LeMars and Sharon Albro of Branson, Mo.