Russel 'Russ' Patrick
Russel "Russ" Patrick Russel "Russ" Patrick of Sandusky, Ohio, spent more than 30 summers at his family's cottage on LaSalle Island near Cedarville. Mr. Patrick and his wife, Virginia, regarded the cottage, "Celdom Inn" as their true home. Mr. Patrick died in Ohio June 20, 2007, following a brief illness.
He was born at Bellevue, Ohio, in 1913, to Walter L. Patrick and his wife, Edna V. Humphrey.
Mr. Patrick started coming to LaSalle Island at around age two to visit the cottage of his grandparents, Charles and Cora Humphrey of Bellevue.
As a teenager, he spent summers at the "Celdom Inn," where he helped build additions to the cottage, docks, boathouses, and outbuildings.
In the 1970s, Mr. Patrick and his wife made many improvements to the family cottage and began to spend the summers there.
Mr. Patrick married Virginia Gosser on New Year's Eve 1941. It was shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, just a few weeks before he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps at Wright Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Patrick served first as a sergeant in the 21st Air Depot Group, refurbishing Liberator Bombers at Burtonwood Air Base near Warrington, England.
He returned to attend Officer's Candidate School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps in 1943. Lieutenant Patrick was stationed as a radio carrier officer at Finschhafen, New Guinea, and later in northern Luzon, Philippines, in 1945.
Mr. Patrick was a member of the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, serving for many years as its compact chairman, and he was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He enjoyed the Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts in Hessel, where he often exhibited his 13-foot Lyman wooden boat.
Mr. Patrick is survived by his wife, Virginia; their four children and their families, Kathleen Moore of Marietta, Georgia, Thomas Patrick of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Nancy Carney of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and John Patrick of Sandusky; eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
