April 5, 1938 – December 22, 2025
Patricia J. Hussey, 87, a long-time resident of Twin Lakes, died in hospice care in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on December 22, 2025.
Patricia was born in Chicago, growing up in a “two-flat” near 77th and Halsted. She was proud of her Irish heritage and Catholic faith. Her great-grandparents immigrated to Wisconsin during Ireland’s Great Hunger of the 1840s, and Saint Sabina Church in Chicago was a focus of her family’s life for nearly a half-century.
As a young woman, Patricia was an athlete, fleet of foot, earning the nickname “Slugger Hussey” for her baseball skills. She loved to travel, traipsing off to Ireland and Greece. She earned her bachelor’s degree from DePaul, her master’s from Chicago State, and taught English at Chicago’s Tilden High School for 37 years.
For decades, “Aunt Pat” wrote countless letters to her “cast of thousands” of friends and family. She had 10 nieces and nephews, each of whom tried – unsuccessfully – to write return letters at the same pace they received them.
She was also a legendary walker. She breezed through a half-marathon on her 70th birthday. Years later, a nephew witnessed a bank employee in Chicago ask, “Aren’t you the lady who’s always walking?” and, in Iowa, met a Twin Lakes native who said, “The woman who walks all the time? Around the lake? EVERYONE knows ‘Aunt Pat’!”
She is survived by nieces, Shannon, Kerry, Megan, Erin, Kellyann, Kathleen, Mary; nephews Jim and Michael; and friends and family from across the country and world.
Patricia was preceded in death by her parents, James and Florence (Boland) Hussey, and her siblings – James, who died in infancy, Thomas (Barbara), Eugene (Judy) Hussey, and Joanne (Harry) Hardy, and a niece, Maureen.
Patricia’s family would like to express their gratitude to the caring staff at Primrose Senior Living in Pleasant Prairie, the team from Saint Croix Hospice, and to her many friends and family members, including Twin Lakes friends Barb and Sandy, who showed exceptional kindness to “Aunt Pat” during her final years.
A visitation will be held at Proko Funeral Home in Kenosha on January 15, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. until the time of service at 6:00 p.m. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the next day.
