{"id":181338,"date":"2024-07-18T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=181338"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:14:55","slug":"patricia-a-wills-1952-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=181338","title":{"rendered":"Patricia A. Wills 1952 ~ 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Springs, CA&#8230;Patricia A. Wills January 9, 1952 ~ July 8, 2024 (age 72).\u00a0 \u00a0In July of 2024, Patricia Ann Wills (Armstrong) closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was home. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Jack Sr. and Vera, her brother Jack and her Husband, Gary Wills Sr. She was shortly joined by her sister Karol. She is survived by her sisters, Mary-Jo and Sandra, and her brother Melvin. She is also survived by and lives on in the hearts, memories and characters of her children, Gary Wills Jr, Jamie Wills and Lori Enos, and in her many grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6697df9f1c5e6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-181339\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6697df9f1c5e6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6697df9f1c5e6.jpg 380w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6697df9f1c5e6-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When remembering the life of Patricia Wills, loved ones recall her generous nature, her charm and above all\u2014her cooking. Everyone claims that the matriarch of their family is the best cook\u2014none of them are wrong\u2014but all who were blessed enough to try Patty&#8217;s home cooked meals attest to the deliciousness of each and every creation. We will remember her hours spent in the kitchen cooking amazing meals from lasagna to meatloaf, to the best chocolate chip cookies or richest chocolate cake.<\/p>\n<p>In her younger years she was a business owner, an attentive mother involved in her children&#8217;s 4-H projects and sports, and a homemaker. She was a skilled gardener with the most beautiful and vibrant flowerbeds. Later on, she was a doting grandmother who loved nothing more than giving her grandchildren gifts.<\/p>\n<p>She was a lifelong devout Catholic, with a side interest in astrology.<\/p>\n<p>She will be laid to rest at St. Michael&#8217;s Cemetery in Livermore, CA.<\/p>\n<p>For 72 years she was ours, and now she is home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"obit-text-container\">\n<p>To\u00a0<a class=\"send-flower-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dieboldfuneral.com\/obituary\/Patricia-AWills\/sympathy-landing\" data-tag=\"send-flower-promo\">send flowers<\/a>\u00a0to the family or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dieboldfuneral.com\/obituary\/Patricia-AWills\/1070981\/memorial-tree\" data-tag=\"plant-a-tree-promo\">plant a tree<\/a>\u00a0in memory of Patricia A. Wills, please\u00a0<a class=\"visit-flower-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dieboldfuneral.com\/obituary\/Patricia-AWills\/sympathy-landing\" data-tag=\"visit-floral-store-promo\">visit our floral store.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Springs, CA&#8230;Patricia A. Wills January 9, 1952 ~ July 8, 2024 (age 72).\u00a0 \u00a0In July of 2024, Patricia Ann Wills (Armstrong) closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was home. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Jack Sr. and Vera, her brother Jack and her Husband, Gary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,25,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","category-san-andreas","category-valley-springs","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6697df9f1c5e6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181340,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181338\/revisions\/181340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}