Patricia Ann "Pat" (Flikkema) Dowell

Patricia Ann “Pat” (Flikkema) Dowell was born on September 18, 1927 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to Renzy Evert & Roelvine Angelina (Bouma) Flikkema. The Flikkemas lived in Pennsylvania until 1945 when Pat moved with her parents and sister Joyce to Tulsa, OK in her senior year of high school. She graduated from Tulsa Central High School where she also met her future husband, Charlie. She completed her education at Oklahoma A & M (OSU) with a degree in Physical Education while Charlie studied and played football for the University of Oklahoma. While at OSU, Pat was a charter member of the Delta Sigma Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and participated in many intramural sports.

Upon Pat’s graduation, she and Charlie were married on December 23, 1949 and spent their honeymoon in Havana, Cuba and New Orleans where Charlie played in the Sugar Bowl game. After Charlie graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1950, they moved to Fort Laramie, Wyoming where they pastored their first church. Pat and Charlie also lived and pastored Presbyterian churches in Oklahoma City, Monymusk, Scotland, Celina, Texas and Junction, Texas. They raised three children and were married for 54 years until Charlie’s death in 2004. Pat and Charlie enjoyed traveling to visit friends and family across the country as well as the UK and Uruguay. Pat always had the role of “navigator”.

She moved to Spanish Cove Retirement Center in Yukon, Oklahoma in 2005. Pat always led an active and fit lifestyle - from golfing, walking, yoga, swimming, tennis & Tai Chi and even rowing a dragon boat on the Oklahoma River well into her eighties.

Pat was active in all areas of church life including the choir, Presbyterian Women, Sunday school, Bible study, Youth Group and medical mission trips to Mexico. She also served and volunteered with Girl Scouts, Meals on Wheels and was awarded Citizen of Year in Junction.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Joyce and husband Charlie. She is survived by her children: daughter Jody McEndarfer and husband, Tom of Tulsa, OK; daughter Jane Ellington and husband, Don of Coppell, TX; and son, Ken Dowell and wife Debra of Moore, OK. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren: Sarah, Timothy, Karen, Ben, Jonathan, Andrew, Christina, Daniel, Ethan & Grace. She had 18 great-grandchildren including Arley, Mike, Delaney, Ellory, Mark, Claire, Margaret, Liam, Levi, Wrenley, Jesse, Charlie, Lucye, Myla, Paisley, Owen, Everett, & Ava.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the Urban Mission, 3737 N Portland Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73112.

Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Hillcrest Presbyterian Church, 6600 S. Pennsylvania Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73159.