Patty Jean Barth

Services for Patty Jean Barth, 82, Carmel, will be at 12 noon Tuesday at Flanner and Buchanan-Oaklawn Memorial Gardens (Good Shepherd Chapel), 9700 Allisonville Rd., Indianapolis, with calling that day from 10 a.m. She passed peacefully Jan. 29 at home with her beloved daughters.

The widow of Robert E. Barth, Mrs. Barth was a co-owner of Barth Electric Co. As a couple, Bob and Patty enjoyed playing golf in the Indianapolis area. They were members of the Golf Club of Indiana, where Patty scored a hole in one at the fifth hole on Aug. 8, 1983. As a resident of Bridgewater, Patty continued her golfing successes at The Bridgewater Club’s Executive Golf Course, where fellow members and friends in the ladies league valued her talent for skillful chip shots. Playing outside the Indianapolis area, Patty especially looked forward to her rounds of golf while at her home away from home in Key Largo, Fla., dubbed “Patty’s Paradise” by her family. She had been a member of Starlighters, the support group for the former Starlight Musicals program at Butler University, and was a member of the Clowes Hall Women’s Committee, the Women’s Committee of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Order of the Eastern Star Beech Grove Chapter 465. She attended Northview Church.

Survivors include daughters Vicki L. Gillaspy and Sally Zier; grandchildren Alyssa Scotten, Erica L. Costa, James R. Gillaspy and Jacob Zier; and great-grandchildren Lucas V. Coleman, Oliver Scotten, Carmen Brielle Ferro, Haylee Sexson, Elliot Scotten, Lochlean Gillaspy and Juliet Costa. A native of Scottsville, Ky., Patty was preceded in death by her parents, Payton Arlee and Ruby Jewell Riggs, and her brother, Relis Riggs. Online condolences may be made at www.flannerbuchanan.com.