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"Patricia Touchette Hutchinson, 66, of Clarksdale passed away in her childhood home in Kingman, Arizona, on December 11, 2014 following a courageous battle with cancer.
She held a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from University of Arizona, and was a proud Arizona Wildcat. She received her Master's in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in Gifted Education from Northern Arizona University. She completed most of the EdD in Cirriculum and Instruction from NAU in Gifted Education with an Anthropology emphasis, and held an Administrative certificate. She taught for almost 43 years. With a passion for children, she was a natural and dedicated educator. She made no distinction between her home in the classroom and her home anywhere in the world.
Tricia was born in Santa Paula, California to Clifford Lawrence Touchette and Emma Joanne Duff on April 21, 1948. She grew up in Kingman, Arizona.
Tricia was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from 1971-75, where she taught art classes at Tonga High School, and met her husband of 40 years. Together, they traveled throughout the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central Europe collecting memories, and souvenirs for the wall of their home.
Drawn to island life, Tricia taught at Kealakehe Elementary School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and participated in the annual Ironman Triathion. The family moved back to Arizona in 1985 where Tricia taught Special Education at Cottonwood Elementary School, led the Advanced Learners Program (ALP) in the newly built Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School, and eventually followed her own children to Cottonwood Middle School, where she would spend many of her 12 years with the Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District.
As the ALP District Coordinator, she worked with gifted cluster classes and teachers, at all five schools, throughout the district. Additionally, she led or joined projects, including Odyssey of the Minds, Hands Across the Border, Spring break trips to Peru, Boston & New York, Student Council, Friday Morning Video, MathCounts, Robotics, and the Yearbook. She painted murals of distant adventures on the walls around the CMS campus and encouraged her students to "Think Big." Many former and current colleagues and students enjoyed a celebration with her at her retirement party at Cottonwood Middle School on Tuesday, November 25.
Geography was her passion. She spent more than 20 years with the Arizona Geography Alliance, and developed cross-cultural and geography lessons for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at U of A, traveling to Cyprus and throughout the U.S. In October, 2014, Tricia received the Arizona Council for the Social Studies Isadore Star Award.
Tricia coached an AYSO girl's soccer team for years and sat on the board. She taught her children and grandchildren up in the sport as well. She spent time water coloring, making jam, sewing first her children's clothing and later holiday stockings for Made in Clarksdale, knitting afghans, studying genealogy, spoiling her three dogs, pulling weeds in the yard, and doing constant remodeling jobs at home. She loved to travel, and had been to every continent except Antarctica.
She touched the hearts and minds of many students and fellow educators with her positivity, encouragement, strength and joy for learning with others. Her smile and laugh were contagious, and her compassionate spirit will be remembered. She was immeasurably proud of her own children and grandchildren as well as students that she grew close to over the years.
She is survived by her husband, a son and daughter, 2 grandchildren, a brother and 2 sisters.
A service in memory of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson's life will take place Saturday, December 20, 2014, at 1 pm at the Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church, 330 Scenic Dr, Clarksdale, AZ.
In lieu of flowers, community members are invited to donate to a fund to celebrate ideals she held dear.
We invite extended family, friends and community members to join us in celebrating the beauty and light she brought to our lives at a ceremony in the new year, at a date and time to be determined. Please contact family members to be included in the planning."
Written by my niece, S. Hutchinson, daughter of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson. Used with permission.
Tricia attended Kingman Grammar School, Kingman Jr High School, and graduated from Mohave County Union High School, class of 1966. She as a Pom Pom Girl as a Bobcat and later a Bulldog. Member of the National Honor Scoiety, the Hualapai annual staff and a class representative in high school.
After graduation, she attended North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, before transferred to U of A, Tucson.
"Patricia Touchette Hutchinson, 66, of Clarksdale passed away in her childhood home in Kingman, Arizona, on December 11, 2014 following a courageous battle with cancer.
She held a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from University of Arizona, and was a proud Arizona Wildcat. She received her Master's in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in Gifted Education from Northern Arizona University. She completed most of the EdD in Cirriculum and Instruction from NAU in Gifted Education with an Anthropology emphasis, and held an Administrative certificate. She taught for almost 43 years. With a passion for children, she was a natural and dedicated educator. She made no distinction between her home in the classroom and her home anywhere in the world.
Tricia was born in Santa Paula, California to Clifford Lawrence Touchette and Emma Joanne Duff on April 21, 1948. She grew up in Kingman, Arizona.
Tricia was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from 1971-75, where she taught art classes at Tonga High School, and met her husband of 40 years. Together, they traveled throughout the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central Europe collecting memories, and souvenirs for the wall of their home.
Drawn to island life, Tricia taught at Kealakehe Elementary School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and participated in the annual Ironman Triathion. The family moved back to Arizona in 1985 where Tricia taught Special Education at Cottonwood Elementary School, led the Advanced Learners Program (ALP) in the newly built Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School, and eventually followed her own children to Cottonwood Middle School, where she would spend many of her 12 years with the Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District.
As the ALP District Coordinator, she worked with gifted cluster classes and teachers, at all five schools, throughout the district. Additionally, she led or joined projects, including Odyssey of the Minds, Hands Across the Border, Spring break trips to Peru, Boston & New York, Student Council, Friday Morning Video, MathCounts, Robotics, and the Yearbook. She painted murals of distant adventures on the walls around the CMS campus and encouraged her students to "Think Big." Many former and current colleagues and students enjoyed a celebration with her at her retirement party at Cottonwood Middle School on Tuesday, November 25.
Geography was her passion. She spent more than 20 years with the Arizona Geography Alliance, and developed cross-cultural and geography lessons for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at U of A, traveling to Cyprus and throughout the U.S. In October, 2014, Tricia received the Arizona Council for the Social Studies Isadore Star Award.
Tricia coached an AYSO girl's soccer team for years and sat on the board. She taught her children and grandchildren up in the sport as well. She spent time water coloring, making jam, sewing first her children's clothing and later holiday stockings for Made in Clarksdale, knitting afghans, studying genealogy, spoiling her three dogs, pulling weeds in the yard, and doing constant remodeling jobs at home. She loved to travel, and had been to every continent except Antarctica.
She touched the hearts and minds of many students and fellow educators with her positivity, encouragement, strength and joy for learning with others. Her smile and laugh were contagious, and her compassionate spirit will be remembered. She was immeasurably proud of her own children and grandchildren as well as students that she grew close to over the years.
She is survived by her husband, a son and daughter, 2 grandchildren, a brother and 2 sisters.
A service in memory of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson's life will take place Saturday, December 20, 2014, at 1 pm at the Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church, 330 Scenic Dr, Clarksdale, AZ.
In lieu of flowers, community members are invited to donate to a fund to celebrate ideals she held dear.
We invite extended family, friends and community members to join us in celebrating the beauty and light she brought to our lives at a ceremony in the new year, at a date and time to be determined. Please contact family members to be included in the planning."
Written by my niece, S. Hutchinson, daughter of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson. Used with permission.
Tricia attended Kingman Grammar School, Kingman Jr High School, and graduated from Mohave County Union High School, class of 1966. She as a Pom Pom Girl as a Bobcat and later a Bulldog. Member of the National Honor Scoiety, the Hualapai annual staff and a class representative in high school.
After graduation, she attended North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, before transferred to U of A, Tucson.
FindAGrave member # 47153939
"Patricia Touchette Hutchinson, 66, of Clarksdale passed away in her childhood home in Kingman, Arizona, on December 11, 2014 following a courageous battle with cancer.
She held a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from University of Arizona, and was a proud Arizona Wildcat. She received her Master's in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in Gifted Education from Northern Arizona University. She completed most of the EdD in Cirriculum and Instruction from NAU in Gifted Education with an Anthropology emphasis, and held an Administrative certificate. She taught for almost 43 years. With a passion for children, she was a natural and dedicated educator. She made no distinction between her home in the classroom and her home anywhere in the world.
Tricia was born in Santa Paula, California to Clifford Lawrence Touchette and Emma Joanne Duff on April 21, 1948. She grew up in Kingman, Arizona.
Tricia was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from 1971-75, where she taught art classes at Tonga High School, and met her husband of 40 years. Together, they traveled throughout the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central Europe collecting memories, and souvenirs for the wall of their home.
Drawn to island life, Tricia taught at Kealakehe Elementary School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and participated in the annual Ironman Triathion. The family moved back to Arizona in 1985 where Tricia taught Special Education at Cottonwood Elementary School, led the Advanced Learners Program (ALP) in the newly built Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School, and eventually followed her own children to Cottonwood Middle School, where she would spend many of her 12 years with the Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District.
As the ALP District Coordinator, she worked with gifted cluster classes and teachers, at all five schools, throughout the district. Additionally, she led or joined projects, including Odyssey of the Minds, Hands Across the Border, Spring break trips to Peru, Boston & New York, Student Council, Friday Morning Video, MathCounts, Robotics, and the Yearbook. She painted murals of distant adventures on the walls around the CMS campus and encouraged her students to "Think Big." Many former and current colleagues and students enjoyed a celebration with her at her retirement party at Cottonwood Middle School on Tuesday, November 25.
Geography was her passion. She spent more than 20 years with the Arizona Geography Alliance, and developed cross-cultural and geography lessons for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at U of A, traveling to Cyprus and throughout the U.S. In October, 2014, Tricia received the Arizona Council for the Social Studies Isadore Star Award.
Tricia coached an AYSO girl's soccer team for years and sat on the board. She taught her children and grandchildren up in the sport as well. She spent time water coloring, making jam, sewing first her children's clothing and later holiday stockings for Made in Clarksdale, knitting afghans, studying genealogy, spoiling her three dogs, pulling weeds in the yard, and doing constant remodeling jobs at home. She loved to travel, and had been to every continent except Antarctica.
She touched the hearts and minds of many students and fellow educators with her positivity, encouragement, strength and joy for learning with others. Her smile and laugh were contagious, and her compassionate spirit will be remembered. She was immeasurably proud of her own children and grandchildren as well as students that she grew close to over the years.
She is survived by her husband, a son and daughter, 2 grandchildren, a brother and 2 sisters.
A service in memory of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson's life will take place Saturday, December 20, 2014, at 1 pm at the Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church, 330 Scenic Dr, Clarksdale, AZ.
In lieu of flowers, community members are invited to donate to a fund to celebrate ideals she held dear.
We invite extended family, friends and community members to join us in celebrating the beauty and light she brought to our lives at a ceremony in the new year, at a date and time to be determined. Please contact family members to be included in the planning."
Written by my niece, S. Hutchinson, daughter of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson. Used with permission.
Tricia attended Kingman Grammar School, Kingman Jr High School, and graduated from Mohave County Union High School, class of 1966. She as a Pom Pom Girl as a Bobcat and later a Bulldog. Member of the National Honor Scoiety, the Hualapai annual staff and a class representative in high school.
After graduation, she attended North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, before transferred to U of A, Tucson.
"Patricia Touchette Hutchinson, 66, of Clarksdale passed away in her childhood home in Kingman, Arizona, on December 11, 2014 following a courageous battle with cancer.
She held a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from University of Arizona, and was a proud Arizona Wildcat. She received her Master's in Elementary Education, with an emphasis in Gifted Education from Northern Arizona University. She completed most of the EdD in Cirriculum and Instruction from NAU in Gifted Education with an Anthropology emphasis, and held an Administrative certificate. She taught for almost 43 years. With a passion for children, she was a natural and dedicated educator. She made no distinction between her home in the classroom and her home anywhere in the world.
Tricia was born in Santa Paula, California to Clifford Lawrence Touchette and Emma Joanne Duff on April 21, 1948. She grew up in Kingman, Arizona.
Tricia was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from 1971-75, where she taught art classes at Tonga High School, and met her husband of 40 years. Together, they traveled throughout the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Central Europe collecting memories, and souvenirs for the wall of their home.
Drawn to island life, Tricia taught at Kealakehe Elementary School in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and participated in the annual Ironman Triathion. The family moved back to Arizona in 1985 where Tricia taught Special Education at Cottonwood Elementary School, led the Advanced Learners Program (ALP) in the newly built Dr. Daniel Bright Elementary School, and eventually followed her own children to Cottonwood Middle School, where she would spend many of her 12 years with the Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District.
As the ALP District Coordinator, she worked with gifted cluster classes and teachers, at all five schools, throughout the district. Additionally, she led or joined projects, including Odyssey of the Minds, Hands Across the Border, Spring break trips to Peru, Boston & New York, Student Council, Friday Morning Video, MathCounts, Robotics, and the Yearbook. She painted murals of distant adventures on the walls around the CMS campus and encouraged her students to "Think Big." Many former and current colleagues and students enjoyed a celebration with her at her retirement party at Cottonwood Middle School on Tuesday, November 25.
Geography was her passion. She spent more than 20 years with the Arizona Geography Alliance, and developed cross-cultural and geography lessons for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at U of A, traveling to Cyprus and throughout the U.S. In October, 2014, Tricia received the Arizona Council for the Social Studies Isadore Star Award.
Tricia coached an AYSO girl's soccer team for years and sat on the board. She taught her children and grandchildren up in the sport as well. She spent time water coloring, making jam, sewing first her children's clothing and later holiday stockings for Made in Clarksdale, knitting afghans, studying genealogy, spoiling her three dogs, pulling weeds in the yard, and doing constant remodeling jobs at home. She loved to travel, and had been to every continent except Antarctica.
She touched the hearts and minds of many students and fellow educators with her positivity, encouragement, strength and joy for learning with others. Her smile and laugh were contagious, and her compassionate spirit will be remembered. She was immeasurably proud of her own children and grandchildren as well as students that she grew close to over the years.
She is survived by her husband, a son and daughter, 2 grandchildren, a brother and 2 sisters.
A service in memory of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson's life will take place Saturday, December 20, 2014, at 1 pm at the Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church, 330 Scenic Dr, Clarksdale, AZ.
In lieu of flowers, community members are invited to donate to a fund to celebrate ideals she held dear.
We invite extended family, friends and community members to join us in celebrating the beauty and light she brought to our lives at a ceremony in the new year, at a date and time to be determined. Please contact family members to be included in the planning."
Written by my niece, S. Hutchinson, daughter of Tricia Touchette Hutchinson. Used with permission.
Tricia attended Kingman Grammar School, Kingman Jr High School, and graduated from Mohave County Union High School, class of 1966. She as a Pom Pom Girl as a Bobcat and later a Bulldog. Member of the National Honor Scoiety, the Hualapai annual staff and a class representative in high school.
After graduation, she attended North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, before transferred to U of A, Tucson.
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