After a lifetime of adventures: raising a family, dance competitions, theatre productions and world travel, Pat Wells passed away on April 13, 2016.

So many of us will miss her energy, her joie de vivre, her "GO FOR THE GUSTO" approach to life, her eagerness to reach out to others in need. Her most recent efforts to help others included being a child advocate for abused children with CASA. And her first assignment as a disaster relief team leader for Red Cross, was to help the victims of floods in Wimberley.

Early in her artistic career, Pat was a dancer, a dance instructor, mistress of ceremonies, and judge for professional ballroom dance competitions across the United States and Europe. She and her dance partner achieved the ranking of International Champions in the Latin Dance category.

Most in San Antonio know Pat as part of the Theatre Community. When she began, her concentration was with children as producer, and co-owner of the children''s theatre company, ACTING UP. She directed the summer musical theatre camp for NEISD and often choreographed for shows at Bradley Middle School and Spring Branch MS. One of her most memorable productions was WIZARD OF OZ for Region 20 "VIP CAMP", a summer camp for blind and visually impaired children. When a blind girl with cerebral palsy sang "Over the Rainbow", there was not a dry eye in the house.

She has produced and directed hundreds of productions in and around San Antonio. Most recently she won an ATAC GLOBE AWARD for her direction of the play, " ''NIGHT MOTHER" at the Woodlawn Theatre.

Perhaps her most notorious activity every Spring, has been as Stage Manager and "Dominatrix" for CORNYATION, one of FIESTA''s most rowdy and popular events.

Three Cheers and a loving toast to Pat Wells from the dance community, the theatre community, the Cornyation Queens, all the children whose lives she changed through the magic of theatre, and all the animals she rescued and loved all of her life. It was her wish that in lieu of flowers, you would contribute to the animal charity of your choice in her name.

She is survived by her brothers Buddy and Clay, her daughter Carol Lee, her granddaughters Caren, Angela, Ashley, and Jennifer, plus seven great-grandchildren.