Patricia Addison Phillips Henry Bouck Uelman

Patricia Addison Phillips Henry Bouck Uelman, born and raised in Flushing and a third generation of St. George’s Episcopal Church, where her parents were married, passed away on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at Alvarado Medical Center in San Diego, California, where she had lived for the past 30 years. She passed away one week after surgery. The cause of death was primary pulmonary pneumonia and second respiratory failure while she was recovering from a sudden stroke.
Uelman was born in Flushing Hospital on July 28, 1943. She was the daughter of the late Bernard Lynn Phillips and Dorothy Addison Waywell. Beloved granddaughter of the late Dyer Smith and Harriett Beasley Phillips and of the late Thomas Andrew and Clara Addison Waywell. At her father’s death and her mother’s remarriage, Uelman became the devoted stepdaughter of Lieutenant Arthur Nicholas Henry of the U.S. Navy, who passed away in 1990.
In her girlhood she was a Brownie Scout, an Episcopal Choir girl and a member of the Masonic Order of the Rainbow.
Uelman was a WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) member while studying to become a Navy nurse. She earned an Associate degree in Nursing Science from Miami Dade College in Florida after her commencement from Southwest High School there.
In 1963 she married Worcester Bouck II, a Naval Defense Intelligence Agent. The couple had three children: Susan, an antique dealer; Craig, an architect; and Douglas, a U.S. Marine who served in the Persian Gulf War and firefighter in San Diego.
On June 30, 1984, she married Commander William Charles Uelman, a Navy flyer who had taught Navigation at the Naval Academy in Annapolis before his death of pancreatic cancer in 1995.
Uelman was a financial analyst and Project Director in Washington, D.C. and San Diego for Defense Contracting, where she was employed until her death.
An avid gardener and lover of American antiques, she was an expert with needlework. Family members say her patchwork quilts and calico stuffed animals, needlepoint and embroidery were of museum quality.
She is survived by her children; her 88-year-old mother; her sister Susan Lynn Phillips, a past trustee of Flushing’s Bowne House Historical Society; her brother Bradley; and six grandchildren, Shawn, Christopher, Alicia, Thatcher, Chase and Addison. Uelman was laid to rest beside her second husband at Fort Rosencrans Military Cemetery in San Diego.
— Courtesy Susan Lynn Phillips