She accepted a position as a high-school teacher in Whittier and there she met Richard Nixon, who had come home from Duke University Law School to establish a practice. She held part-time jobs on campus, as a sales clerk in a fashionable department store, and as an extra in the movies–and she graduated cum laude in 1937. Left on her own and determined to continue her education, she worked her way through the University of Southern California. At 18, she lost her father after nursing him through months of illness. Her mother, Kate Halberstadt Bender Ryan, died in 1925 at 13 Pat assumed all the household duties for her father and two older brothers. Soon the family moved to California and settled on a small truck farm near Los Angeles–a life of hard work with few luxuries. Patrick’s babe in the morn” when he came home from the mines before dawn. Her father, William Ryan, called her his “St. She was an avid supporter of charitable causes and volunteerism.īorn Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16 in Ely, Nevada, “Pat” Nixon acquired her nickname within hours.
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