October 14, 2024, 77, Mount Olive, NC–

Mrs. Patricia Powell Welch, known to most as Pat Welch, passed away Monday morning, October 14, 2024, at Heritage Place in Fayetteville where she had been for a short amount of time.  She was 77.

Funeral services will be held Friday, October 18, at 1:00 p.m. at Lafayette Memorial Park on Ramsey Street in Fayetteville.  Officiating will be the Rev. Wanda Simmons.  The family will greet relatives and friends at the cemetery.

Born in Fayetteville, Pat had been married to the late William Francis “Bill” Welch, also a Fayetteville native.  With his career involving the financial and lending market, he, Pat, and their family faced many relocations through the years including a long number of years in Georgia, with other stays in Charleston, SC, Lexington, SC, Michigan, Richmond, Va., Fayetteville, NC, and Goldsboro, NC.  After becoming a widow, she made Mount Olive her home so that she could be near her oldest sister, Jo.

She worshipped at Trinity Methodist Church at Magnolia.  She had been a homemaker and stay-at-home mom and had worked at Sears, Roebuck, and Co., and later, she and Bill had founded their own mortgage and lending company.

Pat is survived by a son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters, Chris, Addie, Georgia, and Greenlee Welch, all of Elberta, Alabama; a sister, Fay Powell Raynor of Eastover; two nephews, Todd Raynor and Brandon Raynor; and several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; a son, Michael Jonathan “Jon” Welch; her parents, William Howard Powell and Vinnie Ann Johnson Powell; a toddler brother, Johnny Powell; a sister, Josephine “Jo” Powell Stephenson Johnson; her mother-in-law, Hazel Welch; a niece, Teresa Lynn “Teri” Stephenson; and brothers-in-law, Lynn “Pete” Raynor, William Gene Stephenson and Amos Johnson.