Patricia Leatrice Skubis
March 27, 1938 - January 23, 2016
Obituary
BELLEVILLE/OREGON-Patricia L. "Pat" Skubis, age 77, of Belleville, passed away at her home with her beloved family surrounding her on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. She was born on March 27, 1938, in Stevens Point, the daughter of Harvey and Ethel (Madsen) Bergstrom. On Aug. 30, 1959, Pat graduated from the Fairview Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis, Minn. After graduation, she moved to Tomah where she met Richard J. Skubis. Pat and Richard married on April 18, 1960, in Menomonie and then moved to Madison. In 1973 they built their home out in the country by Paoli. Pat completed her B.S.N. at Milton College in 1979. During her nursing career, Pat worked at the V.A. Hospital in Tomah, UW-Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital and Madison General Hospital as a Psychiatric RN. The next 23 years of her career were spent in long term care at Skaalen Home in Stoughton and finally at Independent Living in Madison. She retired in 2000 and spent her time as a part-time teacher for Blackhawk Tech in Janesville and MATC in Madison where she taught CNAs, Medical Terminology, Hardanger Embroidery and Internet Genealogy. Pat is a long-time family history researcher and genealogist. She taught genealogy classes in Oregon, Fitchburg, Waunakee and surrounding communities. She was an active member of the Dane County Area Genealogical Society and the Madison Embroiders Guild. Pat loved to travel and was able to visit 42 of the 48 contiguous states. She took many trips around the state with her kids, likely to every historical site. She has also visited Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas with her friends and husband. She and Kassia traveled to Luxembourg, Germany and Denmark together in 1987. Pat and Kris took many adventures throughout the U.S. and Europe; including, in 2003 to Poland and Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. In 2013, she also traveled with her daughter, Kris and niece, Kathy to Denmark to meet many of her Danish cousins. Pat is survived by her daughters, Kristi Skubis and Kassia (Tim) Millar; grandchildren, Jacob, Trinity, Andrew and Sadie; step-sister, Lois (Bob) Ryman; and other relatives and friends. Pat was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1991; step-father, Ove Rasmusen; sister, Beverly (Lloyd) Norton; and step-brother, Ken Rasmusen. A funeral service celebrating her life will be held at GUNDERSON OREGON FUNERAL HOME, 1150 Park St., Oregon, at 11 a.m., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, with Chaplain Stephen Zwettler presiding. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m., and again from 10 a.m. until the time of the service on Friday. Burial will be held at the Forest Cemetery, Stevens Point on Friday at 3 p.m. Special thanks to all involved in her care, to Jon Temte M.D. and his team, Thad at Hometown Pharmacy and Agrace HospiceCare. You all made her wish to die at home possible. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
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Visitation
Thu Jan 28, 2016 @ 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
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Visitation
Fri Jan 29, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
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Fri Jan 29, 2016 @ 11:00 AM CDT
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Skubis
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Mom - You will always be loved and dearly missed. Thanks for all of the amazing adventures that I was able to share with you! Remember that you are responsible for teaching me how to read a map, so I will never be lost, but that a broken dotted line on the map stands for a dirt road. However, even that dirt road got the two of us to where we wanted to be. All of my love - greet everyone for me too - Love your Krissy
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Dan and Karen Kearns
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Our deepest sympathy to the Millar Family and Kris Skubis. We only met her a couple of times but she was a very nice woman. RIP Pat
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Cathi Fischer
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So sorry for your loss, Pat was such a loving and caring person. I thoroughly enjoyed being in her classes. She made genealogy so interesting. Cathi Fischer
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Anita Duske
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My deepest sympathy to all of you.
Anita (Rokke) Duske, Fairview Hospital Nursing classmate
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Hartvig Schøn
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Hartvig Schøn, Denmark
My deepest sympathy to the Millar Family and Kris.
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Kassia
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Hi Mom, Well it is 1:15 am and I am awake. It is my quiet time. I would call you about now to tell you how things are going and what good, bad or otherwise happened in my day/week/life :) Jacob got his report card. Not bad, but he has done better. He went to his archery meet and had a good time. This weekend there is a lock in at the high school on Saturday. He is excited because they will play video games and have Pizza. OH NO... almost for got the permission slip that is due tomorrow along with the check! OK, done. Trinity has a birthday party to go to this weekend. She wants to go to Justice at the mall to get the gift for her friend. I hope I can fit that in tomorrow. She is such a good helper with Sadie. Sadie is starting to try to crawl. I had to remember to pack her up some food for school. She has 2 teeth now. Andrew had his IEP and is doing so well on his reading recovery program. I am proud of him and all the work he is doing. He can read to me now mom !! Tim likes his new job at the USPS but he will need a new car to do it. His current one has suffered salt/rust damage to the frame that makes it unsafe. I am working 2 jobs for now until all the dust settles with everything in my life and I can sort it out. Kim has not been well and is at St Mary's for a surgery on Monday. Kris came over. She and I went to get our hair done so you can not complain about "our hair" LOL. So today I write it to you instead and tell you all about it. I am finding out about all the things we planned right, the steps we skipped, the things we missed or need to fix for next time and the work around that I had to do to get things to work my way. Well Pat Jr. keeps plugging along and sometimes it is going well and sometimes not so much. My life keeps going, even though you are gone. I love you, I miss you and even though I saw this coming for days, weeks, months - now that is has happened, I am still devastated. When Grandma Ethel died - I asked you, "what do you do without your mom." and you had some words of wisdom that made it OK. and Aunt Bev died - I asked you, "What will they do without their mom?" and again you had something to say that made me feel better. Now I have to ask myself - "What will I do without my mom?" I don't know but I will try to do what you would do. Stand up for those that can not do it for themselves. Be patient and stop yelling, be calm and quit worrying about money, don''t be afraid - they can't hurt you unless you let them and if you can not go over, under or around it - go through it. Love, Kassia