Eric Anthony Patterson

We-Are-Alert.com
Downloaded October 18, 2000 by http://web.archive.org

www.we-are-alert.com/Personal+(Eric).htm

Eric Anthony Patterson was born September 5, 1970 at Panorama City, California, the son of Horace Eugene Patterson and Janet Ellen Andra Patterson, and died October 29, 1999 at Wichita, Kansas at the age of 29 years.

He moved with his family to Conway Springs in 1974 from California. He attended St. Joseph Catholic School and graduated from Conway Springs High School with the class of 1989. At CSHS, Eric was a four-year Scholar Bowl member, was in a school play, and participated in basketball, cross country, and track.

Eric attended Kansas State University, where he was active in the pro-life movement, helping organize campus activities and writing articles in the school paper, defending the rights of the unborn. He designed a bumper sticker used by Right to Life—Life: The Choice of the Next Generation. At the college campus parish, St. Isidore in Manhattan, he was a member of a Bible study group, taught CCD, and made weekly visits to a local nursing home where he read to a retired K-State English professor. He corresponded frequently with a young man serving a prison term in Texas. He studied Spanish in Monterrey, Mexico, during the fall semester his sophomore year. He then worked for ATT in Goddard for several months before returning to K-State for his junior year. Following his graduation in 1993, Eric attended a summer session with the Legionnaires of Christ in Connecticut. Following his return, he was a substitute teacher in Conway Springs and Clearwater and also taught CCD. In January of 1994 he began teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) classes at Maur Hill Preparatory School in Atchison. For the next two years, he attended Benedictine College to earn a secondary teaching certificate and also taught Spanish and religion classes at Maur Hill.

For the last three years, Eric was a sales counselor in the computer department at the east Wichita Circuit City store. In July 1999 he traveled with family members to England and Scotland for three weeks. During the trip he visited the Isle of Skye, the birthplace of his paternal great-grandmother.

Eric was a member of St. Joseph Parish and of the Knights of Columbus. He is survived by his parents Horace and Janet Patterson; one brother, Luke Patterson; two sisters: Becky Leddy and Catherine Patterson; his brother-in-law, Curtis Leddy; his four nephews: Andrew, Jason, Michael, and Matthew Leddy; and his grandmother, Catherine Andra, all of Conway Springs, and a number of other relatives and many friends. Eric’s family and friends celebrate his caring, kind, and gentle ways.

"Eric, you have made our lives much richer during your brief stay and you will never be forgotten."

More information about Eric can be found in the August 20, 2000 issue of the Wichita Eagle newspaper. You may search their archives at: http://web.archive.org/web/20040217193712/http://www.wichitaeagle.com/:

[See BishopAccountability.org's copy of this article.]

Published on August 20, 2000, Page 1A, Wichita Eagle, The (KS)

EX-AREA PRIEST ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE PRIEST SPAN 17 YEARS AND FOUR LOCATIONS. SOME OF THE ALLEGED VICTIMS, NOW ADULTS, SAY THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO COPE. ONE KILLED HIMSELF.