Patty Loosmore passed away April 19, 2017, from Alzheimers. She was born in Los Angeles, CA on August 28, 1934, to Ethel Beem McCue and James Hoffman McCue. She grew up In Pasadena, and following graduation from high school, she married Robert Ferguson. They had four children. Patty and Bob divorced, and she married Henry "Mac" McKinney in 1960. The family moved to Waitsburg and soon thereafter into the "house of her dreams," a 1912 Craftsman farmhouse on the Coppei Creek outside of town.

Once her youngest child was in school, Patty went to work for the Waitsburg School District, as Bu...