Mary Patricia Dowling, née Battistelli on March 31,1936, passed away on August 31, 2025, at the age of 89. She went by her middle name, Patricia. A Registered Nurse who graduated from St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in Passaic, NJ, Patricia later studied and graduated as a part-time student from the University of Bridgeport, in CT. She earned both a B.A. in Political Science and an MBA specialized in Urban Management. She was proud of being the first in her family to complete a college degree. While in college she initiated the Council for Part-Time Students. Additionally, as a private duty nurse, and homemaker, she volunteered for the Professional Nurses League, conferring scholarships on nursing students with financial need. Later in her career she was a quality assurance consultant for home healthcare and a hospital case worker at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
In her free time, she loved reading, history and art. Her favorite museum was the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Her passions were horticulture and animals. Patricia nursed numerous baby animals, both domestic and wild, to health after injury or separation from their kin. While in college for many years as a part-time student, she would invite foreign students and faculty to share holiday meals with her family. These students and faculty were from Thailand, Mauritania, Indonesia and India to name a few.
As a mother of two children, completing her education, she was highly encouraging of reading, visiting historical sites, and museums. Unusually, she would check out reproduction fine art at the library to rotate in her home for family discussion. Long into her life was a regular at libraries and research facilities.
She is survived by her sister, Nancy Ann Battistelli. Patricia's former husband Eugene J. Dowling of Middlebury, CT, predeceased her. Together they shared two children, Kevin J. Dowling and Maura Ann Dowling.
Kevin and his wife Mary Jo Dowling have two children, Ashlinn Snyder and Aidan Dowling. Ashlinn and her husband Alex Snyder share a daughter. Lucille. Maura shares a daughter Maia Pons with her former partner Diego Pons. Maia and her partner Miles Corrigan share a son, Hugo Corrigan.
Patricia was predeceased by her parents Alexander and Annabelle Battistelli of North White Plains, NY.
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