Patricia was born to an US Air Force family in 1956 at Lockbourne Air Force Base Columbus, Ohio. She spent her early years during assignments at Owego, NY, Montgomery, AL, San Bernardino, CA and Hillcrest Heights, MD. Pat became an equestrian and won many trophies in Class A Horse Shows, including Grand Champion in her class at the Maryland Pony Show. The shows were located at various locations in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. She was selected as third best in her class by the Maryland Horse Show Association at Pimlico.

Pat was an usher at The Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theatre for several years while she attended Potomac High School where she graduated with honors. She was appointed to the National Honor Society and received the Merit Scholarship Award from Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel. She attended Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio where she received the faculty citation for scholarly distinction and then graduated Magna Cum Laude from Catholic University Washington, D.C. She also attended Dublin College and Trinity College in Ireland and Georgetown U. & the Corcoran in Washington. Pat was a close friend of Father Hartke, head of the Drama Dep't at Catholic U, who selected her to work with the Abbey Theater Company that came to Catholic U. to perform a play "The Plough and the Stars" for the USA Bi-Centennial in 1976. Pat went to Ireland with them as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Abbey National Theater and the Peacock Theater. Subsequently she worked on EXCALIBUR, a motion picture made in Ireland, and then went to London where she became a Camera Assistant. Pat worked on 23 major motion pictures including Lost in Space, Rob Roy, Shadowlands, City of Joy, When the Whales Came, The Road to Wellville and Evita. She also made many commercials for Television. Her work took her to France, USA, Argentina, India, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Egypt, England, Scotland and Morocco. She retired at age 48 and remained in London. The gold broach that she is wearing in this photograph has been handed down for generations to the most senior woman in the Kiely family.