
Patricia Morrison Ross Coburn
Patricia Morrison was born in Brooklyn, NY, March 13,
1929, daughter of George Elliott Morrison and Dorothy Nash Morrison. She
attended Centenary Junior College and Barbizon School of Fashion Modeling.
She married James Dunbar Ross, Jr., in St. Ann's Church, Sayville, on June 19,
1948. She and her husband had three children, Elliott Morrison Ross, James
Dunbar Ross III and Christopher Scott Ross. The family lived at 79 Greene
Avenue, Sayville. Patricia was a free-lance artist/designer/fabricator and
installer of window displays for high-fashion stores on Long Island.
Later, she was owner of Christmas Shop in Hudson, WI, which offered
personally-designed Christmas decorations as well as complete home and business
design and decorating services. Subsequent to her divorce from her first
husband, Patricia married Earle Coburn in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, on November 16,
1976. She died on March 18, 2001 and is interred in St. Ann's Cemetery.
Photograph dated 1967, from the collection of Webb N. Morrison.