Patricia Perkins Brumback-Twedt

Patricia Ann Perkins Brumback-Twedt died on February 9, 2015, at her home in Frankfort. Born September 7, 1925, in Livingston County, Kentucky, she was the daughter of Harry D. Perkins and Ada Lynn Sexton Perkins. She was known as Pat, Mom, and Granny by family and friends, and as the lady who always wore a hat or puttered around their Frankfort neighborhoods in her flowered golf cart with her husband, who knew her fondly as Patty. Painter, musician, seamstress and writer, she was mostly known for her warm friendliness to everyone and her amazing joy of life. After the war, she took art courses at the University of Cincinnati. Her portraits, including a prized cow and a car, were paid commissions. Her murals remain on the walls of homes in Owenton and Frankfort. She was superintendent of the art department at the Owen County Fair for many years. She was a singer and seamstress in the Lexington Chapter of Sweet Adelines, even starting and directing a chorus in Owenton for a short time. She also had been a soloist and choir director of the Long Ridge Baptist Church, where her first husband, Jual, was song leader. She was an occasional pianist and a member of the Long Ridge Homemakers. After the death of her husband, she married Robert M. Twedt. They took a writing course together at Kentucky State University, which resulted in each of them writing books, both receiving acclaim, his in Minnesota for his memoir of growing up in Rochester. Hers were first a novel, From the Daybook of Picky Sinclair, and then her memoir, Or Was That Eggs?, both featured at Kentucky Book Fairs. Taught as a small child by her mother to make doll clothes, she was an excellent seamstress. Her last projects were the dozens of hats she made and wore everywhere. One of her saddest days was when she could no longer see to sew and had to give away her sewing machine. She had her own power tools. She could stud walls, build a closet or move a doorway (with a little help from her friends). She built her daughters a magnificent dollhouse and all the dollhouse furniture. The greatest joy in the last years of her life was her beloved Bobby. In their 21 years together they traveled, built two houses, moved into several more homes in Owenton or Frankfort, sang, read and laughed together. In her last years, she most enjoyed listening to him read to her every night. She is survived by her husband, Robert Madsen Twedt, daughters Julie (Curtis) Kirk, Faith (Marc) Clifton, and Merry Lisa “Nokie” Brumback; son John Hugh (Valerie) Brumback; grandchildren Willie Clifton, Jeremy Smither, Keith Clifton, Kelly Toole, Matt Toole, Abi Clifton Elrod, and Patrick Brumback; and great-grandchildren Lauren Smither, Caleb and Liza Elrod. She was the youngest of eight children, the last survivor of this “Great Eight,” and greatly loved by her many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her little daughter Rebecca Susan Brumback, husband Ransom Jual Brumback, and son Ransom Jual “Randy” Brumback Jr. A celebration of her life will be held at the Long Ridge Baptist Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass or the charity of your choice.