Robert Joseph Patnaude

ROBERT JOSEPH PATNAUDE Robert Joseph (Bob) Patnaude, 85, of Shawnee passed from this life on September 1, 2021 at the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK. He was born May 26,1936 in Duluth, MN to Mark Joseph Patnaude and Victoria Royer Patnaude. He grew up in Duluth and graduated from Cathedral High School where he was an All-City and All-State football player and also excelled in hockey. Bob served in the United States Marine Corp as a combat engineer and was honorably discharged as a CPI Grade E-4 and worked for awhile as a police officer in Nichols Hills. He was a retired Building Contractor and moved to Shawnee Lake after retirement and enjoyed living there. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and riding in a boat and on a jet ski. He was preceded in death by his parents, a son Mark Joseph Patnaude, three brothers, Daniel, Jerry and Tom Patnaude and three sisters, Helen, Irene and Katherine. He is survived by his wife Sharon of the home; children Jeff and wife Corina of Oklahoma City, Greg and wife Carol of Harrah, Bobby and wife Ruth of Colorado; Michelle and husband Marvin Pittman of McLoud, Rhona and Paul Freeman of Harrah, John Barker of Shawnee and Brenda and Brian Harris of Edmond; 18 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept.3 and 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4. Services will be held in the Asa Smith Memorial Chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4 with Rev. Wesley Paul Coffey officiating. There will be no interment. Tributes and condolences may be posted on the Asa Smith Funeral Home web-site www.asasmith.net