Mary Patricia (Chaney) Buchanan (“Pat” to her friends and family) died December 27, 2022. A celebration of her life was held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 14, 2023 at the Strode Funeral Home Chapel in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Pat was born July 17, 1939 in Neosho, Missouri to Vates A. and Orel Durbin Chaney. Her family moved to Osceola, Missouri, through grade school and then to Stillwater, Oklahoma, but Pat completed high school in Princeton, Illinois. She attended college at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. After marrying Don K. Buchanan in 1958, she permanently moved back to Stillwater.
Pat was the proud mother of two sons, Kevin and Brooke. She had been active in the PTA, leader of both sons’ Cub Scout packs, was a member of Alpha Xi Delta Sorority and the Stillwater Woman’s Club and Jaycee Jaynes. Pat had been employed as a teachers’ assistant and clerical worker in the Stillwater school system. She retired from Will Rogers Elementary. At their vacation home located on Table Rock Lake near Shell Knob, MO, she enjoyed the best of times with her husband, sons, and later with grandchildren. Pat lost her husband, Don, in 2002 after 44 years of marriage.
Pat is survived by her sons Kevin Buchanan and wife Mary Beth and Brooke Buchanan and wife Jo; her grandchildren Chad Buchanan and wife Crystal, Brittany (Buchanan) Di Via and husband Claudio, Kelsey (Buchanan) Straub and husband Ted, and Dean and Nick Buchanan; her great-grandchildren Laura Buchanan and Sofia Di Via; and her sisters Martha (Chaney) Johnson and Elaine (Chaney) Bailey and husband John.
Those wishing to honor Pat's memory may do so by contributing to the Stillwater Church of Christ, 821 N. Duck St., Stillwater, Oklahoma 74075.