Mary Pat Houseof Little Rock, AR
August 15, 1930 - October 4, 2024
Mary Pat Wood House, 94, of Little Rock passed away October 4, 2024. Pat was born August 15, 1930 in Pangburn, Arkansas to Icy Mae Wood and Prince Columbus Wood, Sr.
While attending Hendrix College in 1950, Pat was crowned as Campus Homecoming Queen and was voted most beautiful, most brilliant and most athletic.
Pat helped organize the Women's Emergency Committee and was the chairperson of publicity for the W.E.C. during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis.
Pat was included as one of the ''Red-Hot Hundred'' in the September 14, 1962 edition of Life Magazine with a full-page photo and article.
She played an important role in the League of Women's Voters to advocate abolishing poll taxes.
From 1967-1971, Pat was a member of Winthrop Rockefeller's campaign for Governor.
In 1970 she was a member of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and played a role in helping to establish the first halfway house in Little Rock with Rev. Efirt.
In 1984 she was president of KABF 88.3 radio station and was a member of the Pulaski County Election Commission.
Pat worked with Worldwide Travel Agency, helping fund President Bill Clinton's presidential campaign.
Pat was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Billie Wood Butler and Sunny Wood Hicks; brothers, Prince C. Wood, Jr. and Joe Wood; sons, Marcus House and Scott House; daughter, Sarah Leah House Carpenter; by the father of her children, Byron Wesley House, Jr. and by her companion for many years and Pangburn classmate, Kyle Marsh.
She is survived by son, Byron Wesley House III (Shae); daughter, Missy Thornton (Charlie); son, John House, Sr. (Lisa); ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, October 16th at 12:00 p.m. at Roller-Owens Funeral Home in North Little Rock. Interment will be at Henderson Cemetery in Pangburn at 2:30 p.m.
Pallbearers are Byron House IV, Shye Carpenter, Chase Thornton, Clint Thornton, Clark Thornton and John House, Jr.
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Obituary Provided By:
Roller-Owens Funeral Home
5509 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
North Little Rock, AR 72116
www.rollerfuneralhomes.com