Patricia Ann Gabbard was 47 and working as a postal clerk at the downtown Edmond post office when she was killed on the morning of August 20, 1986. She had been born in Crescent, Logan County, and later lived in the Oklahoma City–Edmond area. Having worked about two years for the U.S. Postal Service and recently become a full-time clerk, she had raised two daughters and held earlier jobs including industrial work at facilities such as the Kerr-McGee nuclear fuels plant.

That hot August morning, a fellow postal worker entered the building armed with multiple handguns, locked the doors, and began shooting. Fourteen postal employees, including Patricia, were killed and six others wounded before the gunman died by suicide at the scene. Patricia is buried in Oakland–Knowles Cemetery in Logan County and her name appears on memorials to the victims, including the Yellow Ribbon memorial at the Edmond post office.

Did anyone who knew Patricia remember what she was like at work or in the Edmond community?