Pauline "Pat" L. Nolan - Obituary

auline Louise Nolan “Pat” Born in St. Louis on August 27,1942, to Louis John Pfeffer and Mary Louise Tobin, Pat was a life-long learner whose early education had its beginning at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, City House, in St. Louis, starting in kindergarten and lasting through high school, from which she graduated in 1960. Initially interested in being a nurse, she studied at St. John's Hospital in St. Louis, but her real love was art and art history, subjects she studied at the University of Maryland from which she graduated in 1985. She did her graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, earning a Master's Degree in the Liberal Arts. At some point she continued her education by switching to the study of and then the teaching of needlework. Most of you who have been to our home have remarked on the beauty of her needle art. Wherever we moved, she pursued her artistic endeavors and taught her needlework skills in local area shops, developing that same passion in others who took those classes from her and kept art alive. When we were able to travel abroad, we spent a good bit of time in art museums as she continued her own education at places like the Louvre and the Musee D'Orsay. Later in life, her interest in politics came fully alive and made our home a place of lively discussion. She is survived by her two sisters; Susan Field Pfeffer White and Marylou Pfeffer Tyrrell; her brother, Charlie Pfeffer; her daughter, Elizabeth Nolan; her son, Chuck Nolan and his wife, Sherri Nolan; her grandchildren, Julia Nolan, and Monica and Joe Pattison, and by her loving husband of 63 years, Charlie Nolan. If there is a God, I'm sure that Pat is looking down upon us with joy at our children, whom she loved and helped to grow, admiring the people they have become, thanks in no small part to her love and care for them. I know that she will continue to help us all as we go forward without her. May she rest in peace.