Patty McKay grew up on a farm south of Hillsboro, Ohio, with her parents and three sisters. She moved to Dayton, OH, where she got a degree in accounting at Miami Jacobs college, then went to work as a bookkeeper at WONE/WTUE. After serving faithfully for many years with the strange assortment of characters at WONE/WTUE, she moved to the Centerville-Washington Park District where she enjoyed a less hectic work environment. She retired from the park district Sept. 30, 2005 and is now enjoying lunches with the Red Hat Society. She is also often found playing dominoes, doing crafts, participating in the reading club, making quilts for Warm Up America, and doing other activities at Beavercreek's new Senior Center. She has also renewed her membership in Weaver's Guild of the Miami Valley after several years absence and taken up knitting.