Patricia Gallahan - Obituary

atricia D. Gallahan of Clinton, MD, 80, passed away at her home on Friday, October 10, 2014 after a brief battle with cancer. She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, William Alton Gallahan, daughter, Patricia "Kathy" Canoles, sister, Sue Mona, brother, Frank Denison and parents, Evelyn Levrio and Dwight K. Denison. Pat is survived by children, William "Mike" (Susan), Daniel D., Patrick "Sam" and Sharon S. Gallahan, E. Colleen (Jim) Bird and Kelley A. (William) Corbin; brothers, John, Dwight and Duane Denison, 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Friends are invited to Pat's Life Celebration on Wednesday, October 15 from 2-4 and 6-8pm at GEORGE P. KALAS FUNERAL HOME, 6160 Oxon Hill Rd., Oxon Hill, MD. Services will be held on Thursday, October 16th at 11a.m. at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church (Large Church)5203 St. Barnabas Rd., Temple Hills, MD. Interment St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery, Piscataway. Please leave your thoughts and memories of Pat by signing the guestbook located above. Pat is probably best known by many from seeing her around the farm. If you were lucky enough, you may have even heard her singing some of her favorite ditties from the kitchen as she whipped up her famous homemade ice cream. However, she may most widely be remembered by our community as the woman dressed from head to toe in her signature orange sweat-suit each October. Adorned with ghost and goblin accessories and rubber snakes in her socks, she excitedly welcomed each trailer load of pumpkin patch visitors to her home. The pumpkin patch was her masterpiece and she lived to create those memories each year for our guests. Still, for those who had the honor of knowing her personally, she was a practical jokester, a Halloween addict that never missed an opportunity to dress up (Regis, Hagrid and the Easter Bunny among her repertoire), a generous heart that always had a standby gift for any unexpected guest on Christmas morning, NEVER left the house without lipstick, loved to tell outrageous stories only to have her audience guess which one was actually true, had a potty mouth that would put a sailor to shame, recently tried to convince us that she started the hashtag phenomenon and just last week responded to everything with her latest favorite word, “epic”. She was many things to many people, but to us, she was the life of the party. We are comforted with thoughts of her being reunited with her soul mate, her “lambie pie”, her parents, brother and sister and her eldest daughter Kathy. In lieu of the Viking funeral she has been requesting for decades, we ask that you join us for a Celebration of Life service in her honor.