Patricia Ann Michaud

January 19, 1941 – March 12, 2025 – Pat Michaud, nee Eagan, died after 84 years of carving out spaces for her talents and ambition when the world didn’t always make that easy.

She was a beloved teacher, a talented traditional rug hooker, a devoted friend and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

She built a rich community of friends during her 26 years in Oregon, where she and her husband Norman Michaud moved after retirement. She was an active member of rug hooking and needlework groups and regularly came home from an annual camp filled with fun stories, new patterns and too much wool. For years, she cleaned and pressed altar linens at her parish, Our Lady of the Lake. She was devoted to her church and faith.

Pat was born on January 19, 1941 in Lynn, Massachusetts, the older of Stanislawa “Stella” and J. Edward Eagan’s two daughters. Pat helped raise her sister Betty, who was born when she was eight – she told a story of being called in by one of Betty’s teachers because the younger Eagan had changed the grades on her report card to avoid upsetting their mother.

Her surviving family, her husband Norm; four kids and their spouses; eight grandkids; and one great-grandson, are a testament to her love and sheer force of will.