Son of Edmund Dewitt Patterson and grandson of Edmund Dewitt Patterson.
Married to Lillian Rose Williams(1906 –
Edmund Patterson, 101
Edmund D. Patterson Jr., a longtime citrus grower in the Redlands area, died July 18 at his home in Redlands. He was 101.
He was born Oct. 7, 1906, in Memphis, Tenn., the only child of Edmund Patterson Sr. and Frances Patterson, and his family called him Pat.
The family moved west because of health concerns, first to El Paso, then Phoenix, before settling around 1912 in Redlands, where Redlands Community Hospital is now.
In 1914, his family built a home in the Crafton Hills, and when he was a child he rode a donkey to the Crafton Grammar School.
He graduated from Redlands High School in 1924 and from Stanford University in 1928. He also attended the University of California Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside for graduate studies.
When he was a young man, he became interested in hunting quail and ducks with his father. He later became a premier big-game hunter with many trophy heads displayed in his home. He hunted in several northwestern states, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Africa and Asia. In his hunting, his family said he "followed the Native American code of taking life carefully and sparingly and with deepmost respect for the animal."
He was accepted into the Hunting Hall of Fame Foundation in 1976.
Patterson studied Native American culture with his father, who was an expert in that area. He took many trips in the Southwest with his father, both as a child and a young man.
He owned many citrus groves in the Redlands area and farmed them all his life. Some were groves he and his father planted many years ago. The family had land in Highland and East Highlands as well as in the Crafton Hills.
In addition to oranges, he grew grapefruit beginning in 1928.
His family said he practiced ranching with concern and respect for the beauty of the land and the health of the trees and that his employees and co-workers through the years were equally devoted to the care of the citrus groves.
Patterson was affiliated with most of the citrus-connected companies for marketing and irrigation. He was president until recently of the Crafton Water Company and had served as president of Redlands Foothill Groves packinghouse.
He was also a member of the city of Redlands Citrus Preservation Commission.
He was an excellent golfer and won several club championships at the Redlands Country Club.
He was married twice and is survived by two sons, Garry Patterson and wife Gunhild of Palo Alto and Redlands and James Patterson and wife Geraldine of Arrey, N.M.; stepdaughter Karen Neubert of Los Angeles; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
He and his wife Gilma traveled extensively around the world, and 20 years ago he bought a mountain home in Colorado, which he loved to visit in the fall for hunting and fishing and in spring for the flowers of the Rocky Mountains.
When asked the secret of a long life, he said with a smile, "An orange a day keeps old age at bay" - a Redlands orange, of course.
Services are 11 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Cortner Chapel, 221 Brookside Ave., Redlands.
Married to Lillian Rose Williams(1906 –
Edmund Patterson, 101
Edmund D. Patterson Jr., a longtime citrus grower in the Redlands area, died July 18 at his home in Redlands. He was 101.
He was born Oct. 7, 1906, in Memphis, Tenn., the only child of Edmund Patterson Sr. and Frances Patterson, and his family called him Pat.
The family moved west because of health concerns, first to El Paso, then Phoenix, before settling around 1912 in Redlands, where Redlands Community Hospital is now.
In 1914, his family built a home in the Crafton Hills, and when he was a child he rode a donkey to the Crafton Grammar School.
He graduated from Redlands High School in 1924 and from Stanford University in 1928. He also attended the University of California Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside for graduate studies.
When he was a young man, he became interested in hunting quail and ducks with his father. He later became a premier big-game hunter with many trophy heads displayed in his home. He hunted in several northwestern states, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Africa and Asia. In his hunting, his family said he "followed the Native American code of taking life carefully and sparingly and with deepmost respect for the animal."
He was accepted into the Hunting Hall of Fame Foundation in 1976.
Patterson studied Native American culture with his father, who was an expert in that area. He took many trips in the Southwest with his father, both as a child and a young man.
He owned many citrus groves in the Redlands area and farmed them all his life. Some were groves he and his father planted many years ago. The family had land in Highland and East Highlands as well as in the Crafton Hills.
In addition to oranges, he grew grapefruit beginning in 1928.
His family said he practiced ranching with concern and respect for the beauty of the land and the health of the trees and that his employees and co-workers through the years were equally devoted to the care of the citrus groves.
Patterson was affiliated with most of the citrus-connected companies for marketing and irrigation. He was president until recently of the Crafton Water Company and had served as president of Redlands Foothill Groves packinghouse.
He was also a member of the city of Redlands Citrus Preservation Commission.
He was an excellent golfer and won several club championships at the Redlands Country Club.
He was married twice and is survived by two sons, Garry Patterson and wife Gunhild of Palo Alto and Redlands and James Patterson and wife Geraldine of Arrey, N.M.; stepdaughter Karen Neubert of Los Angeles; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
He and his wife Gilma traveled extensively around the world, and 20 years ago he bought a mountain home in Colorado, which he loved to visit in the fall for hunting and fishing and in spring for the flowers of the Rocky Mountains.
When asked the secret of a long life, he said with a smile, "An orange a day keeps old age at bay" - a Redlands orange, of course.
Services are 11 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Cortner Chapel, 221 Brookside Ave., Redlands.
Son of Edmund Dewitt Patterson and grandson of Edmund Dewitt Patterson.
Married to Lillian Rose Williams(1906 –
Edmund Patterson, 101
Edmund D. Patterson Jr., a longtime citrus grower in the Redlands area, died July 18 at his home in Redlands. He was 101.
He was born Oct. 7, 1906, in Memphis, Tenn., the only child of Edmund Patterson Sr. and Frances Patterson, and his family called him Pat.
The family moved west because of health concerns, first to El Paso, then Phoenix, before settling around 1912 in Redlands, where Redlands Community Hospital is now.
In 1914, his family built a home in the Crafton Hills, and when he was a child he rode a donkey to the Crafton Grammar School.
He graduated from Redlands High School in 1924 and from Stanford University in 1928. He also attended the University of California Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside for graduate studies.
When he was a young man, he became interested in hunting quail and ducks with his father. He later became a premier big-game hunter with many trophy heads displayed in his home. He hunted in several northwestern states, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Africa and Asia. In his hunting, his family said he "followed the Native American code of taking life carefully and sparingly and with deepmost respect for the animal."
He was accepted into the Hunting Hall of Fame Foundation in 1976.
Patterson studied Native American culture with his father, who was an expert in that area. He took many trips in the Southwest with his father, both as a child and a young man.
He owned many citrus groves in the Redlands area and farmed them all his life. Some were groves he and his father planted many years ago. The family had land in Highland and East Highlands as well as in the Crafton Hills.
In addition to oranges, he grew grapefruit beginning in 1928.
His family said he practiced ranching with concern and respect for the beauty of the land and the health of the trees and that his employees and co-workers through the years were equally devoted to the care of the citrus groves.
Patterson was affiliated with most of the citrus-connected companies for marketing and irrigation. He was president until recently of the Crafton Water Company and had served as president of Redlands Foothill Groves packinghouse.
He was also a member of the city of Redlands Citrus Preservation Commission.
He was an excellent golfer and won several club championships at the Redlands Country Club.
He was married twice and is survived by two sons, Garry Patterson and wife Gunhild of Palo Alto and Redlands and James Patterson and wife Geraldine of Arrey, N.M.; stepdaughter Karen Neubert of Los Angeles; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
He and his wife Gilma traveled extensively around the world, and 20 years ago he bought a mountain home in Colorado, which he loved to visit in the fall for hunting and fishing and in spring for the flowers of the Rocky Mountains.
When asked the secret of a long life, he said with a smile, "An orange a day keeps old age at bay" - a Redlands orange, of course.
Services are 11 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Cortner Chapel, 221 Brookside Ave., Redlands.
Married to Lillian Rose Williams(1906 –
Edmund Patterson, 101
Edmund D. Patterson Jr., a longtime citrus grower in the Redlands area, died July 18 at his home in Redlands. He was 101.
He was born Oct. 7, 1906, in Memphis, Tenn., the only child of Edmund Patterson Sr. and Frances Patterson, and his family called him Pat.
The family moved west because of health concerns, first to El Paso, then Phoenix, before settling around 1912 in Redlands, where Redlands Community Hospital is now.
In 1914, his family built a home in the Crafton Hills, and when he was a child he rode a donkey to the Crafton Grammar School.
He graduated from Redlands High School in 1924 and from Stanford University in 1928. He also attended the University of California Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside for graduate studies.
When he was a young man, he became interested in hunting quail and ducks with his father. He later became a premier big-game hunter with many trophy heads displayed in his home. He hunted in several northwestern states, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Africa and Asia. In his hunting, his family said he "followed the Native American code of taking life carefully and sparingly and with deepmost respect for the animal."
He was accepted into the Hunting Hall of Fame Foundation in 1976.
Patterson studied Native American culture with his father, who was an expert in that area. He took many trips in the Southwest with his father, both as a child and a young man.
He owned many citrus groves in the Redlands area and farmed them all his life. Some were groves he and his father planted many years ago. The family had land in Highland and East Highlands as well as in the Crafton Hills.
In addition to oranges, he grew grapefruit beginning in 1928.
His family said he practiced ranching with concern and respect for the beauty of the land and the health of the trees and that his employees and co-workers through the years were equally devoted to the care of the citrus groves.
Patterson was affiliated with most of the citrus-connected companies for marketing and irrigation. He was president until recently of the Crafton Water Company and had served as president of Redlands Foothill Groves packinghouse.
He was also a member of the city of Redlands Citrus Preservation Commission.
He was an excellent golfer and won several club championships at the Redlands Country Club.
He was married twice and is survived by two sons, Garry Patterson and wife Gunhild of Palo Alto and Redlands and James Patterson and wife Geraldine of Arrey, N.M.; stepdaughter Karen Neubert of Los Angeles; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
He and his wife Gilma traveled extensively around the world, and 20 years ago he bought a mountain home in Colorado, which he loved to visit in the fall for hunting and fishing and in spring for the flowers of the Rocky Mountains.
When asked the secret of a long life, he said with a smile, "An orange a day keeps old age at bay" - a Redlands orange, of course.
Services are 11 a.m. Friday, July 25, at Cortner Chapel, 221 Brookside Ave., Redlands.
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