Patricia Ann Tusick. Age: 86 years old. Pat passed away on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
Beloved wife of William G. McDonald M.D. Dearest Daughter of Catherine A. Toby. Dear sister of Louis Toby, Helen June Blazis and Bernard Toby. Dear Aunt of Patricia Blazis-Voight, Jill Sloan, Gregory Case, Jason Case, Nichole Budnick, Bernard Toby, Stacy Toby and Jennifer A. Hayse.

Pat graduated from the Historic Farrand School of Nursing at Harper Hospital McCauley Hall in Detroit Michigan with honors.Her class was the first class to recite the Nightingale Pledge at their pinning ceremony. During her nursing education she made lifelong friends at McCauley Hall.

Pat was the original travel nurse and left Michigan for California to work at the University of California Hospital in San Diego. Her next destination was Honolulu Hawaii where she worked at St. Francis Medical Center. After all of her traveling she returned to Michigan and enjoyed her friends and family in Dearborn.
She met her dearly departed husband Dr. William G. McDonald while working at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn. She worked at his practice serving the community for many years.

Pat was a lifelong member of the Detroit Yacht Club on Belle Isle where she and Bill enjoyed sailing on their boat the Spalpeen.Pat loved using her creativity to decorate their sailboat for Venetian night and had some wonderful winning designs.

Pat was a mentor and friend to countless people.She loved to read and could finish a book in a day.She enjoyed traveling, snow skiing, sailing, cooking and finding a better way to do just about anything.The theater and dance were her true passions and she loved to go to shows with family and friends that became family to Pat.She was quick to share anything interesting or unique she found in the newspaper with everyone she loved. She could always pull off the impossible for her loved ones if you got in a pinch.You could call Pat at 1am for emergency travel reservations, life advice, or a fabulous restaurant suggestion and she would happily oblige.

Pat was a very unique woman who will be truly missed by so many.

The Ship of Life
by John T. Baker
Along the shore I spy a ship
As she sets out to sea;
She spreads her sails and sniffs the breeze
And slips away from me.
I watch her fading image shrink,
As she moves on and on,
Until at last she's but a speck,
Then someone says, "She's gone."
Gone where? Gone only from our sight
And from our farewell cries;
That ship will somewhere reappear
To other eager eyes.
Beyond the dim horizon's rim
Resound the welcome drums,
And while we're crying, "There she goes!"
They're shouting, "Here she comes!"
We're built to cruise for but a while
Upon this trackless sea
Until one day we sail away
Into Infinity.

Visitation will take place on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, from 3:30 p.m. until the time of the Prayer Service at 4:00 p.m. at Hackett-Metcalf Funeral Home.

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