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Birth:          28 Feb 1935 San Francisco, Cal.
Death:          21 Sep 2013 Oakland, Cal.
Cause of Death: pneumonia

Notes
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1981 book (see for details)
Calif Birth idx on ancestry
Cal Marr Idx on ancestry
Many Branches of Forde Fam tree on ancestry  
MW Snow Fam tree on ancestry 
tributes.com 
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/h/a/Louis-Shankle/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0113.html
http://patch.com/california/cupertino/kaiser-permanente-san-jose-goes-extra-5000-
miles-for-patient_250b3cba:
Last wish honored with symbolic journey to Japan
                78-year-old Patricia Snow always wanted to travel to Japan, but somehow, 
the devout Bay Area follower of Buddhism never made the trip.
                “She was always doing for us and not for her,” says her adult daughter Tani 
Snow. Tani, 46, and her brother Kenji, 51, were sitting in a sun-lit patient lounge at 
the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Hospital, reflecting on their mother’s life, and how a 
Kaiser Permanente Respiratory Therapist named Debi Quick helped their mom make at 
least a symbolic journey to Japan, after a series of health reversals.
                “Mom had valve replacement surgery at Kaiser Permanente in 2012, and 
she was doing great for more than a year,” said Tani.  “But an infection with 
pneumonia this year irreversibly damaged her heart.”
                Patricia was hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente San Jose in the 7th floor 
“step-down” unit. Patricia’s heart was failing, and her outlook wasn’t good.
                “She was having trouble breathing, so that’s why I was involved,” said 
Debi Quick, Respiratory Therapist at KP San Jose for 14 years. Quick was part of a 
team of physicians, nurses and others caring for Patricia Snow on what would 
inevitably be her final days.
                “Everyone here was an angel to my mom,” says daughter Tani. “My mom 
had the best care in this unit, and they treated us, the family wonderfully.”
                To further cheer their mom Tani and Kenji visited San Jose’s Japantown to 
buy some ethnic items for her. They found some Buddhist prayer beads, and a tiny 
jade Buddha figurine, named “Hotei”, which “lived” on the windowsill of Patricia’s 
hospital room, when she wasn’t holding it. 
                One day, while Debi was in the hospital room, Tani casually mentioned her 
mom’s big disappointment never making a trip as a devout Buddhist to Japan.
  “Debi just lit up, and said her musician son-in-law was traveling to Japan the next 
week,” Tani laughed. “Debi asked mom if there was anything personal her son-in-law 
could take with him.”
Then Tani says her mom lit up, and pointed with a smile to the Buddha statue on the 
windowsill.
Hotei, she said. 
                In moments, Debi got her son-in-law on his cell phone and he agreed to 
carry the little jade Buddha to his concert tour of ten cities in Japan. 
                “I felt somehow this was more than a concert trip, more significant,” said 
Daniel, as he held the tiny jade figurine in outstretched palm.
                Martinez took photos of Patricia’s Buddha in 10 Japanese cities where he 
performed. Returning, he presented the photos and the Buddha to Tani and Kenji 
Snow.
                While Daniel and the Buddha figurine were traveling, Patricia Snow died.  
But Tani, Kenji, Debi and her son-in-law believe they helped her make at least a 
symbolic---and possibly spiritual trip to Japan.               
“This is a magical place,” said Tani.

Parents
HAYES John Marshall (19 Oct 1904 - )
PENDERGAST Elizabeth Anne (15 Apr 1911 - 25 Jun 1937)

Siblings
HAYES Patricia Ann (28 Feb 1935 - 21 Sep 2013)

Marriage To SNOW Elson Bertan ()

Notes

Parents
SNOW Virgil Lorenzo ()
RICH Sarah Elberta ()

Children by SNOW Elson Bertan
SNOW Kenji Ananda ()
SNOW Anson Marshall ()
SNOW Tani Anne ()
SNOW Eric A. ()

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