Patricia Harveston

Patricia Ann Harveston, 80, of Clinton, Iowa, a former Sioux City resident, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at Mercy Living Center in Clinton.
Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home. The Rev. David Miller of Southern Hills Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 11:30 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the funeral home.
Patricia was born on Nov. 10, 1935, in Ticonic, Iowa. She was the daughter of Henry and Harriet (Houchins) Ernst. Pat was raised in Sioux City and attended Central High School.
On Aug. 25, 1955, she married the love of her life, William Ray Harveston, in Sioux City. Pat lived in Sioux City; Sheringham, England; Lakenheath, England; Big Spring, Texas; and Sioux City; and then moved to Clinton, Iowa, in 2002. She worked in the health care field. She was a nurse’s aide at the Lutheran Hospital in Sioux City, and a psych tech at the Big Spring Mental Hospital in Big Spring, Texas.
Pat enjoyed riding motorcycles, fishing and painting. What she loved most was spending time with her family. William died on March 26, 1993, in Sioux City.
She is survived by her three children, Peggy (Ron) Schroeder of Clinton, Iowa, Laurie (Willie) Cruse of Clinton, and William Mark Harveston of Sioux City; her grandchildren, Marcy Banker, Sarah Manning, Sam Schroeder, Amy Sander, Jennifer Johnson, Shauna Hill, Benjamin Cruse, Kimberly Petersen and David Whitaker; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded by her parents; her husband; her brother, Duane Ernst; two sisters, Mary Jane Ernst and Carolyn Eugene Ernst; and two grandsons, Samuel R. Schroeder and Joshua C. Schroeder.