Patricia Jane Clark Gersbach

October 28, 1933 — October 13, 2018

Patricia Jane Gersbach (Patricia) passed away on the evening of Saturday, October 13, 2018, at White Oak Manor nursing care facility in North Charleston, South Carolina. The relatives and friends of Patricia are invited to attend her Mass of Christian Burial at 9:00 AM, Friday, October 19, 2018, at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. The Rite of Committal will follow in Beaufort National Cemetery at 11:00 AM. The family will receive friends between 6:00 and 8:00 PM, Thursday evening, at the James A. McAlister Funeral Home. The Rosary will be recited at 7:30 PM.

Patricia was a loving and devoted wife, mother, daughter, aunt and grandmother. She was a caring and highly respected nurse of more than 40 years and was admired by other nurses as a ‘nurse’s nurse’. She was an academic scholar at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where she earned her Registered Nurse credential, and, later, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She maintained a 4.0 grade point average at both institutions. In her ‘spare time’ she was a helpful mentor to many who sought her wisdom and guidance, a voracious reader and life-long learner of the arts and culture, a Master Gardner, and an accomplished artist who enjoyed charcoal sketching, creating oil and water color paintings, and forming sculptures in wire, wax, clay, metal, and stone.

Patricia was the beloved daughter of Mildred and Sylvester Clark of Warren of Pennsylvania and was born on October 28, 1933. She is predeceased by her husband, John Edward Gersbach Sr., and her sister, Jean White (Clark). She is survived by her children: John Edward Gersbach, Jr. and his wife Brenda Twine and John’s two sons, Christopher and Benjamin; Dr. Jeffrey Gersbach and his wife Lori and their four children, Hannah Brabham (Gersbach), Molly, Samuel and Francis; Marcus Gersbach and his wife Hilary and their daughters, Meredith and Lauren and Hilary’s daughter, Marie; and Melanie Venderwege (Gersbach) and her son, Cole. She is also survived by her sister, Barbara Fox (Clark) and her husband Ronald Fox.

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