.WE STILL REMEMBER

 

 

PATRICIA THOMPSON ROY
April 11, 1941 – January 26, 1990

Patricia Thompson-Roy was born April 11, 1941 in Nyack, New York to Thomas Vincent and Vivien Mitchell Thompson. She was the oldest of three children. Her brother, Tommy, died in 1978 from an auto-race accident. Pat attended the Nyack Public Schools and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bacteriology from Syracuse University.

Pat joined Pilgrim Baptist Church in 1954, where she remained active until her health failed. As a youth she was a member of the junior choir, the BYF, Sunday School and Youth Usher Board. Later, her church involvements were the Ladies Usher Board and the Helping Hand Club.  In 1981 she helped plan the first church recognition of graduates. In 1988 Pat initiated a Poinsettia Program for the holiday season, which will be continued in her honor.

Pat was employed for 15 years at Nyack Hospital as the supervisor of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. For the past 4 years she was employed at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River as a microbiologist.

Pat was very active in the community which she loved and served. Her activites included a lifetime membership of the Nyack Branch of the NAACP, the Rockland Negro Scholarship Fund, where she served as Scholarship Chairperson and past Vice President, and the Rockland County Alumnae Chapter
of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

She was past PTA President. In 1978 she was elected to the Nyack Board of Education, the second Black to hold the position of Trustee. She served three terms as Board President and had previously served 5 terms as Vice President. In 1984 she was appointed to fill an unexpired term as trustee for Rockland BOCES and in 1985 she was elected to a full 5 year term.

In 1986 Pat was presented the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Outstanding Community Services.

Pat was known to be an inspiring, kind, and a caring person. She demonstrated great courage and strength in her long illness and will be greatly missed by those whose lives she shared and touched.
 

    Text from  funeral program at the 
Pilgrim Baptist Church, January 30, 1990,
courtesy of Bob Zehner.

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