PORTLAND — Patricia Ann Richardson passed away peacefully at Maine Medical Center on July 31, 2013, at the age of 78.

Pat was born on December 29, 1934, in Washington, D.C. to her loving parents Levi St. Peter of Orono, Maine and Vina Granville of Springfield, Maine.

She was a devoted mother who with her husband, John Richardson, Sr. raised three sons in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. She was employed in her twenties as a secretary to the President of Catholic University and then worked part-time for more than twenty-five years for the Registrar at the University of Maryland University College.

She is survived by her husband John; sons John, Jr. and his wife Dr. Stephanie Grohs of Brunswick, Maine; Mark and his wife Patricia of Hookstown,

PA; Brian and his wife Kim of Radnor, PA, and seven loving grandchildren, John, Glenn, Madeline, Mark, Emily, Julia and Jordan, all of whom affectionately called her “Nana.”

Visiting hours will be held on Monday, August 19 at Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, between 5-7pm and on August 20 there will be a Catholic graveside burial service at the Riverside Cemetery in Orono at 11am.

As Nana would have wanted it, we ask that in lieu of flowers, charitable contributions should be sent in her name to the Springfield Congregational Church, P.O. Box 7, Springfield, Maine 04487 in order to assist the church with its winter heating costs.

For those unable to attend, condolences to the family may be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.