Patricia Mae Avery of Upper Marlboro, MD passed away on Thursday, July 25, 2013 of Glioblastoma brain tumor. She was born in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 1939. She worked at Dickinson preschool in Marlton, was the owner of Mymind Farm, an Arabian horse breeder, and loved animals and her family. Beloved wife of Leonard William Avery; mother of Deborah Avery Cooke and her husband John Gordon Cooke V, Dawne Avery Pappas and her husband Steve Pappas, Dana Avery Hall and her husband J. Stuart Hall, Dorianne Avery Meloy and her husband AD Meloy, and the late Leonard Daniel Patrick Avery "Danny"; grandmother of 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild; sister of the late Robert and James Fox; daughter of the late James and Helen Fox.