Soffer, Patty

Some people are born talented beyond measure but are limited by opportunity, geography, money or timing. Many succumb to those limitations. Patricia Hogue never allowed anything to limit her. Born of the Greatest Generation in a tiny South Dakota town, she maximized what she had been given and more than made up for in love, creativity, exuberance and wicked humor what she lacked. The daughter of humble pioneer immigrants, Pat was sunny, funny and smart as hell. A college grad back when women weren't, she landed great friends and a teaching job in Great Falls, Montana. But her greatest catch of...