We've lost one our stars classmates - Pat Black, our beloved master float builder. Thank you to Keith Koehler for letting us know about Pat's passing on November 14th, just two days after her 72nd birthday. She attended McHenry County College and graduated from Rockford College with a double major in Art and Theatre. Pat dedicated her life to her sci-fi/fantasy art and writing and was the principal designer of characters in the Talislanta role-playing game. She and her sister, Jackie, traveled the US selling her art at renaissance fairs and fantasy and science fiction conventions where she won numerous awards. She also produced work for the White Wolf magazine. She eventually retired from actively producing new work in the early 1990s.
She loved all animals and was fascinated by learning about their behavior. She was devoted to her horse Samantha and was a self-taught equestrienne. She said she was never lonely as long as she was caring for one dog or another, and she loved to reminisce about Nick who was always her favorite. She treated each one as if they were one of her children. She was an avid reader and was interested in many areas, from cosmology to native American culture to quantum physics.

Please provide us with any additional information you may have concerning Pat's life following our days at CLCHS, that would be of interest to her classmates by pressing the Contact Us link on the menu to the left.

Pat never completed a Profile on this site but her page is linked above right and her complete obituary is linked below. We also encourage you to post your memories of Pat by clicking the Post Comment button below.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nwherald/name/patricia-breeding-obituary?id=53696313