Pati Mestas, 67, was partly retired from her job as a deli manager at a Shell convenience store in Corona, Calif., and was spending all the time she could with her three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, her cousin, Tom Smith said. He saw her in March, he recalled, and she had never seemed so happy.

"That was the type of person she was," Smith said. "If you could do it and if it wasn't wrong, she would do it. When she did something, she did it 100 percent. She was faithful to her family, to her friends, a very strong Christian, and she couldn't get enough out of life."
Brooks and Dunn was her favorite country music act.

But Jason Aldean — who was performing when Sunday's shooting on the Las Vegas Strip began — was a close second.

Pati Mestas, 67, of Menifee, California, was killed as she stood near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival stage, doing one of her favorite things.

"Pati loved country (music) concerts," said Isa Bahu, a close friend of more than 10 years. "Brooks and Dunn one of the first (concerts) we went to, and it was one of the best concerts that we went to."

Bahu met Mestas about 11 years ago when he was dating one of her friends. She went on to work at a gas station deli he owns in Corona, California, but their friendship surpassed her job title.

"She was an amazing person," Bahu said. "She was a great grandmother, a great mother, and a great friend."

She was also the "life of the party," he said.

Pati was a victim of the shooting that occurred at the Route 91 Harvest Festival across the street from the Mandalay Bay Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Pati posted a video on Facebook. It showed her jumping up and down in front of the stage, having made her way up to the front of the crowd.