Patricia Ann McConville, 61, passed away on January 13, 2005. She was a graduate of St. John's University where she was elected Homecoming Queen and graduated with a bachelor of science in education. In the 1960s and 1970s she taught English and math to second and third grade students at PS 107 on the lower east side of Manhattan. In the 1970s she also became a certified interior designer.

In 1974 the family moved to Manhasset and Patti continued to manage three three-family homes in Middle Village, Queens, which she did for over 36 years. She was a past president of North Hempstead Country Club's women's golf and a member of the AHRC board for over 20 years, serving as secretary.

For the past 12 years she had been a licensed real estate sales associate with Aug Millang Real Estate and on December 21 was awarded Top Producer for 2004 for the Manhasset office. Her real estate associates said that her intelligence, professionalism, knowledge of her community, energy, and smile were just a few of the qualities that made her successful and that she was loved by her colleagues and clients, as well as her competitors.

In 1995 she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, and given no more than three years to live. She searched independently with assistance from family and friends, for protocols and experimental trials located anywhere in the country that she could travel to and participate in, often informing her doctors of their existence, and lived another 10 years.

Patti McConville was the beloved wife of Bernard, devoted mother of Kimberly Kuester, Kristen and Sean, and dear grandmother of Garrity and Collin Reighley Kuester. She was the loving daughter of Adeline Simpson and dear mother-in-law of Terry Kuester.

Funeral arrangements were made by Fairchild Sons, Inc. in Manhasset. A funeral Mass was held at St. Mary's R.C. Church in Manhasset on January 19, followed by internment at Nassau Knolls in Port Washington.