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Mar 05, 2015 | EDOT Staff

Funeral Services for Pat High Set for March 7, 8

 

Patricia High, teacher, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, 72, died on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at her home in Fort Worth.

 

Services in celebration of Pat’s life will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, TX 76107, the Rt. Rev. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas, officiating. A service of interment will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 515 Columbus Avenue, Waco, TX 76701.

 

Pat was born to Max and Josephine Moseley in Seminole, Oklahoma and attended the University of Texas in Austin. She met her future husband in Houston through mutual friends while they were both in college. The couple married on August 29, 1964, stepping into more than 50 years of ministry together.

 

Pat and Rayford’s first child, Allison, was born in San Antonio, where Rayford served as rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Shortly after that, the Highs moved to St. Francis Episcopal Church in Victoria, where--expecting a second daughter--the Highs were joyfully surprised by the arrival of twins; a daughter, Leslie, and a son, Rayford B. High, III. All three children, their spouses and six grandchildren live in Fort Worth.

 

In an interview at the time of his retirement as bishop suffragan from the Diocese of Texas, Bishop High said he was grateful for the strengths Pat brought to their marriage and their ministry. “She’s been able to help me in areas that I’m not as strong in. She has a grasp of numbers and understanding that I really don’t so [she] takes care of the finances. But where she really has helped is, as a parish priest I was always the last person to leave the church on Christmas Eve, she assembled the toys, even a swing set once … She’s been a great help to bail me out in terms of being a father, too, because I still got credit for some of that.”

 

During their tenure in Houston, where Bishop High served on the board of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and on the diocesan staff, Pat taught at St. Mark’s Episcopal School and tutored students in math. Bishop High currently serves as Bishop of Fort Worth.

 

Condolences can be emailed to Cards can be sent to Bishop High at the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, 4301 Meadowbrook Drive, Fort Worth, TX, 76103.

 

If people wish, memorial gifts can be made to St. Paul’s Day School, 517 Columbus Ave, Waco, TX 76701; Camp Allen Conference and Retreat Center, 18800 FM 362, Navasota, Texas 77868; Tyler Day Nursery, 2901 W Gentry Pkwy, Tyler, TX 75702; or Thistle Farms, 5122 Charlotte Pike, Nashville, Tennessee 37209.