Kathryn Cannon (Pat) Hosler
April 20, 1916 – April 9, 2006
Pat was born into a family and time of victorian sensibilities but lived through the 20th century’s wars, economic upheaval, and technology change. Youngest of a large, close, Salt Lake family, she was the granddaughter of a prominent man; her father was one of the nearly 40 children of the Mormon leader George Q. Cannon. The family moved to Los Angeles in the early 1920s. Her childhood included four-day car trips between the two cities and long vacation trips throughout the west. She grew up in Glendale and Santa Monica in the 1920s, and told of her grandmothers, who lived with her family at the ends of their lives, both wives of large polygamous Mormon pioneer families.
She attended Santa Monica and Glendale High Schools and, in 1933 – its first year in Westwood – UCLA, where she earned a BA in Economics in 1937, the year she married Robert Hosler, a motion picture cameraman, builder, and nurseryman. She is survived by their children: Jay, of Santa Cruz, CA; Dorothy (Teddy), Professor of Archaeology and member of the Department of Materials Science at MIT, Cambridge, MA; and Jenne, of New Port Richey, FL. She has three grandchildren: Jay's sons Eric and Aidan, and Jenne's daughter Carmen Fonda; two great-grandchildren: Justice Hosler and Chance Hosler, both of Santa Cruz; niece Pam Kenney, of Santa Cruz; nephews Patrick and Tim Kenney; two grand nieces, a grand nephew, several great-grand nieces and nephews, and a large extended family. She loved them every one, and was intensely proud of her daughter Teddy’s academic achievement.
Pat went to work during WW II as a social worker. In 1959 she began a 35-year social work career with the Motion Picture Relief Fund, the private welfare agency of the film industry. In the 1970s she earned an MSW degree from UCLA. She remained close to her brother and three sisters throughout their lives, living for years after her marriage ended with her sister, the artist Dorothy Cannon. In retirement she loved art classes at Santa Monica Community College Emeritus Scholars. She loved the family high-desert property in Juniper Hills, CA, where she celebrated almost every Thanksgiving and Christmas, and many other occasions, for the last 60 years.
Pat died of multiple health problems in Santa Cruz CA, the last of her family by several years. Her unquenchable good nature and cheerful heart will remain forever in our memories.
Old family photos New 8/28/06