Patricia M. Garcia

Patricia Garcia was born in Grand Rapids, the second of three daughters, and the family later moved to Lansing and Kalamazoo to follow her father’s career. A World War II Navy veteran who served on the USS Howorth, he worked as a barber when Garcia was young, and her mother stayed home. She recalls visiting his shop on her days off of school: “We’d play checkers with my dad and spin in his chair, and he’d cut our bangs.”