{"id":23392,"date":"2012-09-10T23:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T05:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retzmemorials.com\/?post_type=case&#038;p=593"},"modified":"2024-03-20T01:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T07:25:54","slug":"patrick-oleary","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/patrick-oleary\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick O&#8217;Leary"},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-23392","1":"case","2":"type-case","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"fields":{"event_title1":"","event_date1":"","start_time1":"","end_time1":"","location1":"","address1":"","city1":"","state1":"","zipcode1":"","event_title2":"","event_date2":"","start_time2":"","end_time2":"","location2":"","address2":"","city2":"","state2":"","zipcode2":"","event_title3":"","event_date3":"","start_time3":"","end_time3":"","location3":"","address3":"","city3":"","state3":"","zipcode3":"","event_title4":"","event_date4":"","start_time4":"","end_time4":"","location4":"","address4":"","city4":"","state4":"","zipcode4":"","service_status":"public","first_name":"Patrick","middle_name":"","last_name":"O'Leary","date_born":"12\/31\/1952","date_died":"11\/08\/2011","age":"","city":"","state":"","full_obituary_text":"<p>Pat H. O\u2019Leary, 58, passed away on Nov. 8, 2011, surrounded by his family after a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He had survived colon cancer in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Helena, Dec. 31, 1952, to Francis (Tex) O\u2019Leary and Gerri O\u2019Leary. He attended Central Elementary, Helena Middle School and Helena High, graduating in 1972. He worked for the city of Helena and U.S. Plywood in Silver City before going to work for the Burlington Northern railroad in 1976 until his medical retirement in 2000. He traveled a great deal but came home every weekend to be with his girls.<\/p>\n<p>Pat and Kammie Rasmussen were married in Las Vegas on July 17, 1994. They had two daughters, Brittni and Kelsey O\u2019Leary, and stepdaughter, Misty Rasmussen, whom he loved very much. He had a lot of pleasure taking his family on vacation nearly every summer. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, four-wheeling and playing poker with his many friends.<\/p>\n<p>Pat was preceded in death by his dad; grandmother, Lilly Mae Spry; and several special aunts, uncles and cousins.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his daughters, Brittni (Jeremy Hand, fiance) and Kelsey O\u2019Leary; granddaughter, Hailie; stepdaughter, Misty (Dan) Antonia; step-granddaughter, Hayden Antonia; his mother, Gerri; sisters, Jeanne (Dennis) Haser of Billings, Karen of Newport, Ore.; brother, Mike (Mayda) of Missoula; and ex-wife, Kammie Rasmussen. Also surviving are many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m., Friday, Nov. 11, at Retz Funeral Home Chapel with a reception following the service at Jorgenson\u2019s Restaurant, 1720 11th Ave. To offer condolences or share a memory of Pat, please visit www.retzfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","photo":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1305827.jpg","youtube_video_url":"","family_email":"","family_first_name":"","family_last_name":"","event_title5":"","event_date5":"","start_time5":"","end_time5":"","location5":"","address5":"","city5":"","state5":"","zipcode5":"","event_title6":"","event_date":"","start_time6":"","end_time6":"","location6":"","address6":"","city6":"","state6":"","zipcode6":"","event_title7":"","event_date7":"","start_time7":"","end_time7":"","location7":"","address7":"","city7":"","state7":"","zipcode7":"","event_title8":"","event_date8":"","start_time8":"","end_time8":"","location8":"","address8":"","city8":"","state8":"","zipcode8":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case\/23392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafuneralhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}