Kathy Alvis Patterson is a fifth generation Oklahoman, who started her education in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, and was the third generation in her family to attend the University of Oklahoma. Like her parents, she and her husband met and married while studying there.

Mrs. Patterson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Dakota, a Master of Arts from OU and a Master of Science in Education from Texas A&M International University. She was valedictorian of her high school graduating class, maintained a summa cum laude average in her college work and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching for seven years on the college level in Iowa, the Pattersons served for 17 years as missionaries in Latin America, in Colombia and Mexico City. Mrs. Patterson has now taught 15 years in public schools in Texas and Oklahoma. She returned to Oklahoma City in 1997. The Oklahoma State Department of Education has certified her as “Highly Qualified” in five areas.

Language and literature, as well as history, have always been her favorite subjects. She is fluent in Spanish and has taught French and Biblical Greek. Her favorite writer is Jane Austen. She enjoys early American and European history and has given presentations on King Philip’s War, textiles in colonial America, and the history of the Mayflower. Mrs. Patterson’s longtime hobby is genealogy; she has researched many of her own and her husband’s ancestors and currently helps others prepare necessary documents to prove direct descent from one of the passengers in the Mayflower in 1620.

Mrs. Patterson is the proud mother of three and grandmother of nine, five in Oklahoma City and four in Alaska. She is a member of the Oklahoma Society of Descendants of the Mayflower, the Daughters of American Revolution, the Associated Daughters of Early American Witches, the First Families of the Twin Territories, and the ‘89ers Society. She and her husband moved to the family farm in Hydro four years ago and are enjoying the rural life. Kathy commutes to Oklahoma City, while Dr. Patterson is retired. They attend the First Baptist Church of Clinton.

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