Patricia D. McPhail

The Baltimore Sun

Patricia D. McPhail, a homemaker and volunteer, died of a stroke Friday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Ruxton resident was 84.

Born Patricia Duffin in Toronto, she moved to Washington during World War II and worked as an administrative assistant in the British Embassy.

She moved to Baltimore nearly 60 years ago and was a member of the Baltimore Country Club, the Johns Hopkins Club, the Woman's Club of Roland Park and the Stony Brook Garden Club.

She was a Walters Art Museum volunteer and worked at its gift shop. She also gave her time to Children's Hospital on Greenspring Avenue and The Shepherd's Clinic.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at First Christian Church-St. Andrew's Community, 5802 Roland Ave., where she was a member and sang in the choir.

Survivors include a son, Charles Richard McPhail of Hunt Valley; a daughter, Bonnie Jean McPhail of Timonium; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son, Robert Bruce McPhail, died in 1996. Her husband of nearly 40 years, Donald McPhail, died in 1986.

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