Born on the 26th July 1929, in Hasker Street, Chelsea. Pat was the second child of Charles Joseph Paxman, a Painter and Decorator, and Ellen Margaret Stow. She had two brothers, Edward (Ted) and Anthony (Tony), and a younger sister Valerie.

The family settled in Chelsea where Pat spent most of her formative years, attending the Catholic Brompton Oratory Primary School.

In the 1940's Pat worked as a Post Office Clerk where she met her future husband, Stanley Alfred Olive, a Postman. They married in 1948 at Surrey North Eastern District Registry Office.

Over the next seventeen years, they went on to have nine children, David, Jennifer, Elaine, Pauline, Christine, Paul, Vivienne, Tracey and Andrew.

As the family grew they moved several times in and around Chelsea and Fulham, and then Luton, Boreham Wood and Bayswater.

Around 1978, they moved to Northampton, where they settled into a four bedroom house.

For many years Pat worked as a Post Office Counter Clerk in Northampton but the pull back to London was too great and she eventually returned to Boreham Wood, where she settled into a flat overlooking the football club and The Elstree Studios. She said it was closer to Chelsea where she had grown up and to which, ideally, she would have liked to return.

In recent years Pat felt she needed to be closer to her family, so she moved to and settled into a beautiful spacious flat at St Crispin Retirement Village. Pat spent three and a half very happy years there playing scrabble and skittles and helping out on a voluntary basis in the Village shop. She often said how happy she was there and how she had made lots of lovely friends.

Despite recent health problems, a worrying aneurism and the recent loss of her younger brother Tony, Pat remained fun loving like a 21 year old to the end. She enjoyed life and got a great deal of pleasure from her grandchildren, and more recently, great grandchildren.

Pat had wide choice of music, which she loved, particularly Phil Collins, UB 40, Simply Red and the Travelling Wilburys. She would even play Garage. Pat liked it 'LOUD'; it drowned out the noise of the Hoover, which she often pushed as she danced around her lounge.

Pat was a lifelong fan of 'The Blues', Chelsea Football Club; knew all the players names and had a real soft spot for 'Lampsey', or for those of you that wear Red shirts, Frank Lampard.

Pat had a wonderful sense of humour and could make even the most mundane trip to the shops seem like a comedy classic.

Pat was a hard working mother, a much loved matriarch and will be greatly missed by all those who had the great pleasure of knowing her.