| I met Patty several times as I was growing up. Her niece was one of my best friends throughout our school years. It was always fun to see her and hear her stories. She had a great little sports car, just the right size for her. Every time I met her she was a red head. ... This would have been when I was about 6-8 years old, so about 72-75. I recall her as a redhead when she was on Little House on the Prairie and Love Boat. Her sister and brother-in-law still live here in Lompoc, CA, so I'm sure she must still come to town at times. I recall, also, that for a while she went out with Gilligan, from Gilligan’s Island, Bob Denver. He came to Lompoc with her at least once that I can remember. Maybe they weren’t dating, but just friends...I’m not sure on that. |
| I grew up with her in the forties and have
known her and have been in
contact with her ever since. My parents and I lived next door to the
[Maloney] family in Orlando. The whole family was the best and I
considered them my second home. Patty was actually the baby sitter for
her sister, Diane, and myself, when her parents and my parents would go
out together. She was smaller and a few years older than we were, but
she ruled us with an iron fist. We were actually afraid of her. Of
course, we deserved her wrath, since we were somewhat mischievous.
She always had boundless energy, brains, talent, brains, energy and more talent and energy. As a human being, she was always 10 feet tall in my book. One of the finest and classiest ladies I have ever known. Sadly, her father passed away a few years ago, and I just came from her mother’s funeral in Orlando. Patty is doing well, and still has that up beat attitude and energy. |
This message came in late February 2005 from Suzanne Johnson, a former National Airlines stewardess (spelling and punctuation corrected):
| Thank you for letting us know. What a treat
it was to see one
of our National people become so famous. I have sent this to all of our
members, even the cockpit crews. The only other famous name that
everyone knows is Catherine
Hickland, who flew with National and was a “Fly
Me” girl. She is now on One Life To Live.
She has a beautiful face, voice and talent that she has performed on
Broadway and has become very successful.
We are in the middle of preparing for a full-length documentary in Miami by a New York film crew. I will make sure that they know about her. |
| I met Patty Vitek in the mid- to late
60’s. I graduated from
high school in 1964 and began working at Clipper Carloading in Chicago
where I met Patty who worked in the keypunch room. I used to trim her
hair on our lunch hour. Patty was married to Joe at the time. She
helped me get through a broken heart after a romance went sour. I quit
Clipper to work downtown in Chicago and that’s where I got
the call
from Patty the day Joe was diagnosed with cancer. Three weeks later Joe
passed away. I married in November 1969 and on our way to our cruise
ship to the Bahamas for our honeymoon, my husband and I stopped to have
dinner with Patty living in Winter Park Florida shortly after Joe's
passing. It was shortly after that Patty lost the baby. I knew she had
gone back to Calif., talked to her once on the phone but lost track of
her; that had to be before my two sons were born, before 1974.
I’m so
happy to hear she is well and would love to get back in touch with her.
Patty is a remarkable human being; I remember her laugh the most, always smiling. The employees at Clipper just loved her. She had so much strength, always so optimistic and had so many friends. There was nothing she couldn’t do. I, too, remember the little red sports car that Joe and she drove. He used to pick her up from work in it. They were quite a team as I remember. They lived in Chicago at the time as did her mother and sister. So sorry to hearing of the passing of her parents. |
| I was thrilled to find something about Patty Maloney. Patty and I worked together for National Airlines in 1956. She was the cutest little person I have ever met with a darling personality. We became good friends, and I have some pictures I made of her when she came to visit me in Alexandria, Virginia in the 60’s. |