Birth date: Jun 13, 1946 Death date: Mar 23, 2021
Mrs. Patsy Ann Rhoton departed earth and joined her heavenly family on March 23, 2021 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Russellville, AR on June 13, 1946 to the late Paul and Ona Saleene Stinnett of Centerville, AR. Read Obituary
Oh I am so sorry to see this. I grew up with Pat (Patsy) from elementary school on. I last saw her at our 50th high school reunion. My sincere condolences to her family , may you carry with you loving memories.
Having known Tiff and her mom, Patsy, for many years, I have grown to love them.. It goes without saying, my heart goes out to the family. Please know that each one of you are in my thoughts and prayers.
With my deepest sympathy.
Wanda Kindred DiMare
Tiffany and Tony,
We are so very sorry for your loss. We will be thinking about you tomorrow. Sending many thoughts and prayers - from your friends in KC.
Christel Hockett
I really wanted to be at the funeral. I do want to share a story that I would have told on myself that involved a nasty phone call from Patsy to my dad.
30 yrs ago, Big Tom had flown my brother and I out to Lakeland to clip cattle for a show that was coming up. It was MY first trip to Florida, there is a back story on whether it was both of our first trips to Florida or not. ;)
So Tom and Pete's dad took us fishing out in the ocean, we caught tons of fish. When we got home, being the good red neck Okie I was there was still daylight and still more fishing to be done in the lake behind the Rhoton house. I took a big chunk off the Salome in the refrigerator only to be scolded by Patsy, so I put it back in the frig and she scolded me for touching it and then putting it back. I was like make up your mind ;) I didn't say it back then but definitely would have now. Anyway, I headed out back to catch an alligator out of the lake.
Tom, and Jeff were drinking beer, I am sure on the back sunscreen, I know Jeff was and the other kids were busy doing what they did. I do remember someone yelling you are not going to catch an alligator!! Jeff then replied, "If anyone will it will be that little Sh?t.
Fast forward, I totally caught about a 4 foot gator, and drug him up to the back of the bumper pull trailer parked out by the calf pens. Big Tom and Jeff actually got off the porch and helped me duct tape his mouth shut and we put him in the trailer.
PATSY WAS PISSED!!!! "You turn that thing loose!" "It can't breath with its mouth taped shut!" Tom just laughed and said its ok, you are going to be gone tomorrow.
Now this was obviously pre 911, when there were no metal detectors at the airport and anything you put on a plane wasn't x-rayed and if you put, "perishable" or "fragile" on a big Ice chest and duct taped it shut, they didn't mess with it. So I decided I was taking the gator back to the big OKLA with me on the plane. So the morning we are leaving I got an old Ice chest, put the gator in the ice chest and duct taped it shut.
PATSY WENT NUTS!!!! Now if you know Pat she would never cuss a child. ;) ;) Big Tom just laughed and said, "I don't think they will mess with it at the airport."
Now its time to leave, we walk out into the garage and that ice chest that I so carefully and meticulously taped and labeled looked like a BOMB had exploded inside of it and there were ice chest pieces all over the garage. NOW! you would think this would have made PATSY HAPPY! NOPE!!! little woman is even more mad if that was possible.
"Look at this mess in the garage," "We don't have time to clean this up," "Jason, you little B@!%&ard, that animal is going to starve to death with that tape on his mouth. Again, back then, I was sure I would never be invited back. Now, ;) ;) not so much.
So we flew out on what was probably a Sunday because the kids were still in school. About Wednesday my dad gets a phone call from Patsy. Keep in mind that the Rhoton kids had stayed several summers for two weeks with us in OKLA, but our parents had never met. And Patsy unleashes on my dad about me and this alligator, keep in mind I had already told him about the gator in a much more positive light than what Patsy was casting on the situation.
Well! come to find out the gator did not starve, he had not suffocated and he was very much alive and good and pissed off and living in the garage. You see, Janelle (Weazer, Nellie) Steal Magnolias and Little house on the Prairie references, keep in mind this was 30 yrs ago, and Tiffany had come home from school, opened the garage door and headed through the garage only to be met by "THE GATOR" which tree'd them on the freezer and allegedly ate one of their flip flops when it was hurled at the beast to shoo it away.
After getting off the phone dad said, "Jason, you are probably done in Florida" HA! caught a gator on a bass rig last summer with Tony.
RIP Patsy
Family, you know how much I love you and love Patsy. She has many indelible marks on my life from every stage of my life, from toddler to the last time I saw her at Mom's funeral. I can't believe five of the nine Stinnett children are gone now. May we honor them with the rest of our lives. Davelle
My wonderful little dynamo friend, beautiful, so smart and so fun. Loved her spirit so and there is hole in my life....
