PATRICIA GRISSOM

LAMAR- Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Lamar for Patricia Neal “Pat” Grissom, 66, Lamar, who died Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 12 noon.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home.

Donations may be made to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetic Research Fund) Team: Brandon’s Battalion or Oak Grove Cemetery, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her husband, Raymond; daughters Stephanie Felts-Martin and husband Mike, Lamar, Aimee Hicks and husband Nelson, Columbia, Mo. and Shannon Grissom and Michael Wahl, Miami, Okla.; grandchildren, Chelsey Geyer and husband Sam, Cody Martin, Blake Felts, Brandon Martin, Autumn Russell and William Brown, Jr., Brittany Fleming and Kaitlyn and Shawna Hicks and great-grandchildren, Ava Brown and Magnolia Geyer.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an unnamed brother; an infant sister, Linda and a sister, Paula Faubion.

Mrs. Grissom was born Jan. 12, 1955, in Lamar, to Doyle Granville and Willie Alice “Billie” Faubion. She was raised on a farm south of Lamar and attended Victory School. She was a 1973 graduate of Lamar High School. She married Ray Grissom on Dec. 31, 1988, in Lamar. She worked as a bookkeeper, teller, prepared loan papers and was in charge of collections for Barton County State Bank for more than 20 years. She started and operated The Picket Fence gift shop in the late 1990s. She also transformed Claud’s Barber Shop into Claudia’s Gift Shop, a small shop in The Plaza Theater building and also enjoyed occasionally helping out at Dot's Hallmark.

She served on the Barton County Memorial Hospital Board of Directors and was a former member of the Saddle Club. She loved her family, horses and Yorkie, Rufus. She had an infectious laugh and was quite a talker who never met a stranger.