Mrs. Patsy S. McGowan

Southern Heritage Funeral Home & Crematory

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Date: Jul 23 2024 7:54 AM

SOUTHERN HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY

1000 HODGESVILLE ROAD

DOTHAN, ALABAMA 36301

334-702-1712

www.southernheritagefh.com

 

 

Patsy S. McGowan, a resident of Ashford, Alabama died Sunday, July 21, 2024, at Southeast Health. She was 71.

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Clearman Chapel at Southern Heritage Funeral Home. Interment will be immediately following the service at the Enterprise Baptist Church Cemetery in Ashford. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

Patsy was born on January 9, 1953, in Houston County, Alabama. After graduating from Ashford High School, she earned a degree in nursing at Wallace Community College and began her fifty-one-year nursing career in surgery at Southeast Health. She retired on January 31, 2024.

Patsy was a devoted mom and grandma who tirelessly and selflessly supported her family in all aspects of their lives. She was equally dedicated to her Southeast Health family where she positively impacted the lives and careers of so many throughout her fifty-one-year tenure in surgery.  She truly loved her work and her work family. She will be dearly missed by everyone who knew her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Hazel Rodgers Paramore; her first husband, Terry Shelley; her second husband and the father of her two daughters, Robert McGowan; and a sister, Brenda Watson.

Patsy is survived by her two daughters, Amber Whillock (Matt) and Megan Cornelius (Ryne); four grandchildren, Kaytlin Cornelius, Lex Cornelius, Graham Whillock, and Everett Whillock; a niece, Jennifer Ferguson (Larry); a brother in law, Buster Watson; along with numerous friends.

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