Robin Gail Patterson-Clay

Robin Gail Patterson-Clay passed away on Wednesday April 13, 2016. She was 52 years old and is survived by her two children, Morgan and Michael Clay, her husband, Mike Clay, and her two siblings, Christie Skrivanek and Scott Patterson. Robin was an amazing person, an amazing sister, and an amazing mother. She lived her life working quietly in the background to make sure everyone else’s life would run as smoothly as possible. You could call her and ask her what the best medicine for dealing with allergies was and where you should go to get the cheapest version of it. She would be there to talk to about anything that we needed and it was evident that she loved her children fiercely. Even though these things may seem commonplace, they were and still are monumentally important. They are a testament to the quiet, diligent work of being a mother, a wife, and a sibling. That quiet diligence taught many of us something about life and how to live it. My mother she showed me that part of life is working through it day by day; trying your best to handle whatever it is that life throws your way and appreciating it for the part of life that it was, even if it didn’t seem to make sense. When I was young she would read me novels that helped me to encounter this mysterious, unexplainable aspect of life; and in my later years this cultivated into a deep curiosity and appreciation for the amazing, mysterious place that is the world around us. Now, she has become part of that beautiful, inexplicable world around us and I hold her close in my heart, we all do. She showed us how to honor and remember her in how she taught us to live. There are no words to express how much she will be missed and how much she meant to all of us. We love you as a mother, a sister, and a wife, and will keep you close to us in our hearts and our lives because you will always be there showing us how to find the beautiful.