OBITUARY

Patricia M. Kratz

1946 - 2015

PATRICIA MARIE ROBINSON (1946-2015)

Patricia Marie Robinson, 69, of Hamburg, Pennsylvania passed away suddenly on November 13, 2015, at home. Born September 19, 1946, in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of the late Edward Paul and Marie Rita (Tinneny) Kratz. She grew up in the Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia at 344 Carson Street. On March 18, 1966, she married John Andrew Robinson, who survives at home. They shared more than 49 years of marriage together, initially living in an apartment in Jenkintown, followed by a couple of years on Shurs Lane in Roxborough, and settling down for many years on Shelbourne Street in the Burholme neighborhood of Philadelphia. After her husband's retirement, they moved to Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

Patricia had a fond love of animals and had been a proud owner of a series of dogs, cats, parakeets, finches, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs, and tropical fish. She also went through the trouble of adding a toad caught by her sons to the family and a garter snake that one of the cats found in the kitchen one night. One winter day she caught a pair of field mice in the basement and gave them a temporary home in a hamster cage eventually releasing them back into the wild in the woods of Pennypack Park. She became friends with the local neighborhood squirrels, feeding them nuts in the back yard, often allowing them to come into the kitchen through a window to retrieve treats. Her experience with animals even led to a part-time job in the pet department at the Clover department store on Adams and Rising Sun Avenues in the 1980s. Patricia also enjoyed spending time with her family, playing board games, jigsaw puzzles, sewing projects, and the occasional home improvement project (she once painted the entire kitchen). She loved watching sitcoms, game shows, and soaps, and was a big fan of horror and science fiction movies. She was also best friends with her Mom, often taking trips together to the casinos in Atlantic City.

Life also presented Patricia with health struggles that she bravely conquered. From the age of 15 she dealt with type 1 diabetes, dealt with schizophrenia in her 40s, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2002. With her positive attitude, she was able to overcome all these illnesses, learn to live with them, and live a longer life than most that have these illnesses. She was very proud of her coping with diabetes for over 50 years of her life.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by her two sons, Kenneth (Susan Houser), of Bellefonte, and James, at home. She is also survived by her brother-in-law, William C. Robinson (Marlies), of Doylestown, and sister-in-law, Nelda Ferlic (Kenneth), of Germantown, Maryland, and two nephews, Randy Robinson (Anacelia) and Nathaniel "Sasha" Ferlic. She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Edward Paul Jr. (1979) and infant John (1965). Services were private. Her ashes were buried in Saint Michaels Union Cemetery in Tilden Township, Berks County, on November 7, 2016.

Obituary prepared by Kenneth Robinson.

Patricia was the daughter of Edward and Marie Tinneny Kratz of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania; granddaughter of John and Alice McCouch Tinneny of Philadelphia and great-granddaughter of Patrick “Yankee Pat” Tinneny of Goladuff, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Greenock, Scotland and Philadelphia and his wife Margaret Malloy