Anna Pat Horan

HORAN, Anna Patricia, 93, longtime resident of Teaneck, passed away on January 19 at the Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff. Pat was born in the The Bronx in 1921 to John A. and Mae Begley Donohoe. She graduated from St. Angela Merici Grammar School and Evander Childs High School. A graduate of St. Vincent's Hospital Nursing School (Class President 1942), she practiced as an R.N. at St. Vincent's where she met her husband—to—be, Michael J. Horan, Jr., M.D. Pat also attended Catholic University and Columbia University for advanced nursing studies. Pat and Joe moved to Teaneck in 1950 where they raised their family. Pat was a member of the Altar and Scapular Society of St. Anastasia RC Church where she was a daily communicant and an Extraordinary Minister of the Holy Eucharist. Over the decades, she served on many committees and panels, including the St. Anastasia School Board of Education. Pat was an active supporter of the rights of the disabled. She was a co-founding parent of Special Education in the Teaneck Public Schools and belonged to COSED and COSAC, family support organizations for developmentally challenged and autistic citizens. She served two terms as Treasurer for the Bergen Center of Childhood Development in Tenafly and Northvale. Pat was an early supporter of the Spectrum for Living Residential Centers. Pat enjoyed reading and following current events as a regular viewer of PBS and on multiple occasions her views were published on the opinion pages of The Bergen Record. In her seventies and eighties Pat served as a volunteer at Holy Name Medical Center. Her husband, Michael Joseph Horan, Jr., M.D. was on staff at Holy Name until his death in 1976. In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by her children, Peter, Daniel, James and Patricia Mary. She was also predeceased by her siblings and their spouses, John B. (Olive) Donohoe and Jean (Michael) O'Leary. Pat is survived by her children, Michael J., M.D., John D. (Judith), Paul J. (Ana Maria), Thomas G. (Mary), and Robert G., 10 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren, 11 nieces and nephews, and sisters-in-law, Anne Painter and Jane Galbiati. Family and friends are invited for visitation Friday from 4-8PM and Saturday from 10:45-11:45AM at Volk Leber Funeral Home, 789 Teaneck Rd., Teaneck. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 12 noon at St. Anastasia’s RCC Church, Teaneck. Interment to follow, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Hackensack. In lieu of flowers, donations in Pat’s name may be made to The Center for Humanistic Change of New Jersey www.chcnj.org or the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation www.cff.org. To view Pat’s tribute page and for more information please visit volkleber.com

Anna Pat Horan

January 19, 2015