Patricia Lois Mahan's Obituary
Trisha was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Oct 10, 1946, to Charolette (Blamey) Harrigan and Prentice Harrigan. The family moved to Brentwood, Missouri, in 1952, where her mother taught elementary school and her father owned a trucking company.
Trisha graduated from Brentwood High School in June, 1964. She attended William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., 1964-1965, where she met her future husband, Warren Mahan. After one year at Jewell she attended Western Illinois University in McComb, Illinois, and graduated there in June 1969 with a BS in Education. She taught elementary school in Spring Valley Illinois 1969-1971 while spending summers home with her parents in Brentwood.
Trisha and Warren married June 23, 1973, at the Brentwood Congregational Church. She taught 3rd grade at Wentzville Elementary School from 1972 until 1987, receiving her Master of Arts in Teaching from Webster College in St Louis in June 1976. In 1991 she and Warren moved to Kissimmee, Fl., to be closer to her parents who had retired several years before. In 1993 she started an embroidery business, Monogram Master, which she continued to run until they moved to Texas in 2010.
In September 2006 Trisha was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Surgery removed a tumor, followed by radiation and chemother-apy, and a subsequent surgery in 2008. In March 2009 they bought a house in Cedar Hill, Texas, and in March 2010 finally moved from Florida to their new home in Texas to be closer to family here.
In July 2010 Trisha received word her cancer had returned. Her cancer rapidly advanced, and while receiving treatments at St Paul Hospital in Dallas, she passed away on September 2, 2010.
She is survived by her husband of 37 years, Warren W. Mahan, by her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Kathy and Jim Walk, her niece, Kim (Walk) Prazak and her nephew, James Walk. She is also survived by three great-nephews, Jackson Prazak, Brady Prazak and Miller Walk and one great-niece, Hannah Walk.
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