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Indestructible. Invincible. Superhuman.

If you asked those closest to her, there was never supposed to be an obituary for Pat Gardner.

Then on June 25, 2017, the impossible happened. Pat went into cardiac arrest during a visit with her daughter Amber. She departed the world peacefully two days later at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan.
Born in College Point, Queens on October 11, 1956 to John and Rosemarie Halloran, Pat was forced to learn perseverance from an early age. She grew up in foster care, lost her husband and longtime soulmate, Maurice “Moe” Gardner, to lung cancer at age 37, rehabbed from a life-debilitating Traumatic Brain Injury and tirelessly battled breast cancer from 2014 on… there was nothing Pat didn’t fight for and survive from.

Despite trials and tribulations, Pat never lost her spunk, humor, vitality or culinary skills. Pat was devoted to protecting her daughter, lending an ear to friends, making strangers laugh, unapologetically speaking her mind, and watching her favorite TV shows.

Pat was a graduate of Kingsborough Community College where she was an active member of Student Council and led a march against the Vietnam War. She went on to work in customer service at Banco Popular in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn after a slew of odd jobs including driving a cab, catering, cleaning cow tongues, and running a successful chocolate business “Pat’s Pops”.

Pat is survived by her daughter Amber (whom she’d coined as her “greatest accomplishment”); her Banco family; brothers Jack and David Halloran; close friends (too many to name) and copious amounts of coffee (preferably iced).

Pat lived a selfless life that was devoted to making others feel at home and in comfort. Hopefully she finally is, too.

As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to Disability Rights Advocates, a non-profit dedicated to advancing equal rights and opportunity for people with disabilities.

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