*About Kathy Alvis Patterson

Contact information:

email, alvispat@gmail.com

usmail, 2114 County Street 2470, Hydro, OK 73048-9529

I am a fifth generation Oklahoman, the third generation in my family to attend the University of Oklahoma. Like my parents, my husband and I met and married while studying there.

I hold three degrees, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Dakota, a Master of Arts from OU and a Master of Science in Education from Texas A&M International University. I was valedictorian of my high school graduating class, maintained a summa cum laude average in college work, and am a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching for seven years on the college level in Iowa, we served for seventeen years as Evangelical missionaries in Latin America, that is, Colombia and Mexico City. I taught 26 years in public schools in Texas and Oklahoma. We returned to Oklahoma in 1997. The Oklahoma State Department of Education certified me as “Highly Qualified” in five areas. I retired in June 2019.

Language and literature, as well as history, have always been my favorite subjects. I am fluent in Spanish and have taught French and Biblical Greek. My favorite writer is Jane Austen, followed closely by C.S. Lewis. I enjoy early American and European history and have given presentations on King Philip’s War, textiles in colonial America, how to locate the service records of your Revolutionary War ancestor, the importance of rivers in America’s past, using Wikitree, and the history of the Mayflower. My longtime hobby is genealogy; I have researched many of my own and my husband’s ancestors and currently help others prepare necessary documents to prove direct descent from one of the passengers in the Mayflower in 1620 or from a patriot of the American Revolution.

I am the proud mother of three and grandmother of twelve, four in Oklahoma, one in Texas, six in Arizona, and one in the Marines. Two of my grandchildren are married. Five have graduated from college, and number twelve came to her family from an orphanage in China in August 2016. I am a member of the Oklahoma Society of Descendants of the Mayflower (State Historian, 2004-), the Daughters of American Revolution (State Registrar, 2020-2022), the Associated Daughters of Early American Witches, the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge, the First Families of the Twin Territories, and the ‘89ers Society. I was recently accepted into the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, the National Society United States Daughters of 1812, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865, Magna Charta Dames, the Descendants of Lady Godiva, Dames of the Court of Honor, the National Society New England Women, National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, National Society Colonial Dames of America, and Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars, plus I’ve been a member of Phi Beta Kappa since 1968.

My husband and I have resided for twenty years on the family farm in Hydro in a rock house built by my grandparents in 1945. I am a 17-year breast cancer survivor, and it is 38 years since my serious bout with earthquakes, typhoid fever and hepatitis in Mexico City.