Patricia Patt Timothy

Click Here to View and Download the Celebration of Life for Patricia Timothy (In order to download, click the downward-facing arrow found in the top right-hand corner of the page) Patricia Ann Timothy (81) died on March 31, 2020. She had been a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts since 1991. Patt was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma of February 18, 1939. She graduated from Moorestown High School, New Jersey, and earned her B.S. from Skidmore College and her M.A. from Trenton State College. Patt was married to Jim Riffle from 1959 to 1967. She sang and played the piano beautifully. She pursued her passion for music while studying at The Peabody Conservatory of Music, St. Petersburg Junior College, Florida State University, New England Conservatory, and Longly School of Music. Influential teachers include Marshall Heinbaugh, Allison Drake, William Waters, Martha King Loew, Betty Jane Grimm, Janice Harsanyi, and Barbara Winchester. For sixteen years, Patt taught music to public school children in Columbus, Indiana and in Mt. Laurel and Medford, New Jersey. She directed the church choirs at the Protestant Community Church in Medford Lakes, New Jersey and taught voice privately. Her avocation embraced an active membership with the Princeton Opera Association where she participated in workshops and shared her stage experience with the South Jersey Opera Festival, as well as her high school students. After a relocation to St. Petersburg, Florida, she briefly resided in Pikesville, Maryland and then settled in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she lived until her death. A love of fine arts prompted her to study painting with Judith Bell, Louise Weinberg, Vanessa Irzyk, Wendy Soneson, and John Murray. A prolific painter, Patt's watercolor portraits have been exhibited in numerous shows and her acrylics shown at the Coolidge Corner Branch Library. Patt earned a grant from Brookline Commission for the Arts for the event "Honorary Singing Artists of Brookline" and exhibited her expertise at a Brookline School of Music concert. Subsequently, she acquired a baby grand piano for the O'Shea House and, through an additional grant, that piano was professionally reconstructed. Patt is predeceased by her parents, Colonel Robert W. Timothy and Suzanne Phillips Timothy. She is survived by her sole sibling, Robert P. Timothy, his wife, Martha A Timothy, both of Fernandina Beach, Florida and Sebago, Maine, and her cherished son Bryan D. Riffle of Malden, Massachusetts, and beloved grandsons, Adam J. Riffle and Toby P. Riffle. She was adored by those who were close to her, and inspired her cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and her many friends.