Susan Marie Kitterman Patton, born March 24,1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana, died peacefully in her home in Farmersville, Texas on April 5, 2019. The daughter of Layton Bedford Kitterman and Phyllis Mae Sour Kitterman, Susan grew up in North Dallas and spent most summer vacations enjoying her grandparents’ farm in South Dakota. Many of her aunts, uncles and cousins resided there as well. Susan graduated from W.T. White High School in 1972. She was an honor student excelling in most subjects, but was especially competitive in orchestra, where she was often first chair violin. Her love of music stayed with her for her entire life, with the types of music she blasted out being as varied as the people whose hearts she touched. She would make you listen, too. Whether it was having you sit in a dark room not making a sound or trapping you in her car with the speakers shaking, she insisted you pay attention. The majority of Susan’s work life was spent at Aldridge Dental Lab as a dental lab technician. Her skill was making porcelain crowns and bridges with artistic workmanship any sculptor or jeweler would envy. She later delivered pizzas for Dominos and spent a great number of years caring for her elderly mother. She was working as a Walmart cashier at the time of her death. In her spare time Susan’s strongest passions were family, her home and nature. She had empathy for every living creature. She had such spirit. She would go all out making birthdays and holidays fun, whether it was a goofy noise-making card for the elderly, yard art, or dyeing 84 Easter eggs for her nieces (making her nieces hide them for her over and over). After moving to Allen and Lucas and enjoying the rural life with her horses, dogs, and occasional fowl, she finally found her dream property farther out in Farmersville and felt that nothing compared to her view of a clear, starry night. She was as proud of the stars as if they were put there just for her. She loved the property’s lookout ridge and blackland prairie soil. She found an old Victorian house worth saving and moved it to the property. For years she worked on her house and battled it and the elements, finding excitement in every piece of gingerbread trim and ornate hardware, transoms, tall ceilings, mud room, hardwood floors, shiplap walls, and the breezeway. Every state of condition was beautiful to her, just as she cherished people, animals and plants in every stage of life. She was headstrong, sentimental, gleeful, and forever young at heart. Susan loved to entertain with tales of the ups and downs of her daily life. She is preceded in death by her grandparents and parents whom she loved very much and influenced her greatly. She will be dearly missed by her sisters Christi Louise Kitterman O’Connor and Karen Kitterman Huston (Marshall); stepmother Barbara Kitterman; nieces Jennifer Leigh Huston, Angela Marie Huston Smith (Joe) and Hailey Dawn Huston Jeter (Eugene); great-nieces Emmalyn Mae Smith, Matilda Karen Smith, Clementine Isabel Jeter, and Violet Sophia Jeter; numerous aunts and uncles, cousins, co-workers and friends. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions in Susan's honor to the charity of your choice.

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