In Memory Of
Patricia A. Craig
1929
2020
Patricia A. Craig
November 14, 1929 — April 16, 2020
Patricia Ann Craig, 90 passed away peacefully in her sleep in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, April 16, 2020. She was born on Nov. 14, 1929 at Denver's St. Joseph's Hospital to George and Anna (Howarth) Mulqueen. She was the seventh of ten children.
Pat grew up in South Denver and graduated from St. Francis de Sales High School in 1947. She loved her high school years and maintained lifelong friendships with her fellow cheerleaders and schoolmates, as one tends to do with siblings in almost every grade in a school half a block from home. Those siblings and their families grew, but always stayed close with family picnics, parties, and the family lunches still being held monthly.
She married Joseph Craig, also of South Denver, on August 13, 1949 after the "boys" had all safely come home from the War. Pat and Joe settled and spent the next six plus decades in Aurora, Colorado being founding members of St. Pius X Catholic Church and the Volunteer Firefighters of Aurora, while raising their family of six children. Pat joined the St. Josephs Circle actively caring for the church linens with a group of women who met to play penny ante poker after the linens were perfect! This group, these friendships and many others endured through the years of building a church and community, raising and growing their families and their little city of Aurora.
Preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe (2007), her two sons, infant (1951) and Joe (2004), infant great granddaughter, brothers: Tom, George, Jim and Don Mulqueen, sisters: Shirley Powers and Mary Ellen McKibbon. Pat is survived by her five daughters: Sue (Dave) Young, Ann (Mark) Testroet, Nancy (Mike) Leary, Michelle (Greg) Trujillo and Marilyn Craig, her Grandchildren Chad, Kendra, Kelly, Jason, JP, Erin, Andrew, Jennifer, Todd, Josh and Ellery, 12 great grandchildren, brothers Chuck (Maurine) and Mike (Sue) Mulqueen, sister Lorraine Biggs, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pat will be laid to rest at Ft Logan National Cemetery with her late husband. A Memorial Mass and Celebration of Life will be scheduled when those she loved can once again gather to pray, share memories and return her love. Family suggests donations in her memory to The Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation, FDR Station, PO Box 220, New York, NY 10150. https://www.alzinfo.org/donate.
Pat grew up in South Denver and graduated from St. Francis de Sales High School in 1947. She loved her high school years and maintained lifelong friendships with her fellow cheerleaders and schoolmates, as one tends to do with siblings in almost every grade in a school half a block from home. Those siblings and their families grew, but always stayed close with family picnics, parties, and the family lunches still being held monthly.
She married Joseph Craig, also of South Denver, on August 13, 1949 after the "boys" had all safely come home from the War. Pat and Joe settled and spent the next six plus decades in Aurora, Colorado being founding members of St. Pius X Catholic Church and the Volunteer Firefighters of Aurora, while raising their family of six children. Pat joined the St. Josephs Circle actively caring for the church linens with a group of women who met to play penny ante poker after the linens were perfect! This group, these friendships and many others endured through the years of building a church and community, raising and growing their families and their little city of Aurora.
Preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe (2007), her two sons, infant (1951) and Joe (2004), infant great granddaughter, brothers: Tom, George, Jim and Don Mulqueen, sisters: Shirley Powers and Mary Ellen McKibbon. Pat is survived by her five daughters: Sue (Dave) Young, Ann (Mark) Testroet, Nancy (Mike) Leary, Michelle (Greg) Trujillo and Marilyn Craig, her Grandchildren Chad, Kendra, Kelly, Jason, JP, Erin, Andrew, Jennifer, Todd, Josh and Ellery, 12 great grandchildren, brothers Chuck (Maurine) and Mike (Sue) Mulqueen, sister Lorraine Biggs, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pat will be laid to rest at Ft Logan National Cemetery with her late husband. A Memorial Mass and Celebration of Life will be scheduled when those she loved can once again gather to pray, share memories and return her love. Family suggests donations in her memory to The Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation, FDR Station, PO Box 220, New York, NY 10150. https://www.alzinfo.org/donate.
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