Patricia June Witter Corporaal

Patricia June Witter Corporaal, age 92 of Gulf Shores, AL went to be with the Lord on Sept. 29, 2025. She was the wife of Rev. Richard Corporaal for 55 years.

She was born in Park Rapids, MN in the summer of 1933. She was the 6th of 7 children. Her parents were Robert and Etta Witter.

Pat is survived by her four children, Daniel (Mindy) Corporaal, Douglas Corporaal, David Corporaal and Diane (David) Guetterman, numerous grandchildren, great- grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

The children describe her as loving, kind and selfless.

Pat and her husband, Richard, devoted themselves to the ministry of Jesus Christ. Pat had a beautiful soprano voice. Along with Richard, they could be heard singing duets on Sunday mornings in church. Nobody appreciated her singing more than her children. She sang at weddings, funerals and other events. She loved to sing the songs she grew up with like: "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy…"

She also loved to write poems, stories and she kept a detailed journal of the events of our lives. She also wrote a book of the family although it was never published.

Some of her children's fond memories of her incude: sitting on the roof of a house together at night gazing at the stars; telling stories of when she was a child and when we were young and her many house remodeling projects. She was a gypsy at heart.

Later in life she admitted that it was her that pushed her husband, Richard, to move the family as many times as they did. It was those moves that created in her kids a sense of adventure and a willingness to embrace the unknown.

She had a witty personality and was compared to Lucille Ball in "I Love Lucy."