Roll Call Tribute
Patricia "Pat" Fazio '95 June 1, 2018 10:38 AM updated: June 1, 2018 10:40 AM
(Published in) Cody (WY) Enterprise (on) May 2, 2018
Patricia Mabee Fazio
Patricia Mabee Fazio died April 30, 2018, at her home in Cody.
Pat was born in Goshen, New York, on Feb. 19, 1942, to Jesse Mabee and Irene McNeiece Mabee. After graduation from Cornell University in animal husbandry and biology, she eventually received an M.S. in environmental history from the University of Wyoming and a PhD in environmental history from Texas A&M University.
Her professional career included serving as curator of mycology in the Plant Pathology Herbarium at Cornell University, and teaching recreation management and journalism at the University of Wyoming before being employed at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody.
She became interested in animal rights issues and was an outspoken proponent for wild horses. She and the late Dr. Jay F. Kirkpatrick of Billings wrote numerous articles and appeals to the legislature on the position of wild horses being native animals, and the use of contraceptive methods to control herd numbers.
She served as statewide coordinator of the Wyoming Wild Horse Coalition and most recently was self-employed as an environmental writer and editor. At the time of her death, she was working on a major publication for the non-profit organization, Return to Freedom.
The love of her life was her horse Cherokee Chief and a series of cats. Between 1968 and 1975, Pat was married to James R. Fazio of Moscow, Idaho, and they remained friends the rest of her life.
She was preceded in death by both parents and her sister Margaret Memmelaar and brother-in-law Dale E. Memmelaar.
She is survived by her nephew, Dale F. Memmelaar and his wife Carla, of Norcross, Ga., grand-nephew Joseph and his wife, Suzy, and grand-niece Ashleigh; and by her niece, Gretchen Memmelaar Stockwell and grand-nephew, Andrew, of Bennington, N.H.; and numerous cousins in the New England area.
Per her request, no services will take place and burial will be in Laramie, Wyoming’s Greenhill Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Park County Animal Shelter in Cody.
Patricia Mabee Fazio
Patricia Mabee Fazio died April 30, 2018, at her home in Cody.
Pat was born in Goshen, New York, on Feb. 19, 1942, to Jesse Mabee and Irene McNeiece Mabee. After graduation from Cornell University in animal husbandry and biology, she eventually received an M.S. in environmental history from the University of Wyoming and a PhD in environmental history from Texas A&M University.
Her professional career included serving as curator of mycology in the Plant Pathology Herbarium at Cornell University, and teaching recreation management and journalism at the University of Wyoming before being employed at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody.
She became interested in animal rights issues and was an outspoken proponent for wild horses. She and the late Dr. Jay F. Kirkpatrick of Billings wrote numerous articles and appeals to the legislature on the position of wild horses being native animals, and the use of contraceptive methods to control herd numbers.
She served as statewide coordinator of the Wyoming Wild Horse Coalition and most recently was self-employed as an environmental writer and editor. At the time of her death, she was working on a major publication for the non-profit organization, Return to Freedom.
The love of her life was her horse Cherokee Chief and a series of cats. Between 1968 and 1975, Pat was married to James R. Fazio of Moscow, Idaho, and they remained friends the rest of her life.
She was preceded in death by both parents and her sister Margaret Memmelaar and brother-in-law Dale E. Memmelaar.
She is survived by her nephew, Dale F. Memmelaar and his wife Carla, of Norcross, Ga., grand-nephew Joseph and his wife, Suzy, and grand-niece Ashleigh; and by her niece, Gretchen Memmelaar Stockwell and grand-nephew, Andrew, of Bennington, N.H.; and numerous cousins in the New England area.
Per her request, no services will take place and burial will be in Laramie, Wyoming’s Greenhill Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Park County Animal Shelter in Cody.
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