Pat has lived in Oswego for the last 20 years with her son, Bryan, and their husky Lola.

She is a graduate of Waubonsee Community College. A person who never tires of learning and trying new things, she has enjoyed numerous undertakings during her life which form an eclectic list:
providing secretarial service, making wedding cakes, teaching ballroom dancing, owning a custom window treatment and interior design business, renovating old homes, and writer/publisher to name a few.

She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and lived there on several occasions. She's part of a Boys-R-Us family that includes five brothers (four living), a son and two stepsons.