On January 27, 2025, Iretta “Pat” (Clark) Elliott passed on peacefully at Gundersen Hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin surrounded by her family. She was 99 years young. Pat was born on the family farm, along with her twin sister Alletta, near Blue River Wisconsin. She also had two brothers and two more sisters. She lived most of her young life on the farm, graduating from Sand Prairie Grade School, then on to Blue River High School, graduating in 1943.