TISKILWA — Patricia Donovan Cotter, 90, formerly of Tiskilwa, passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at Tabor Hills Healthcare Facility in Naperville, where she has been a resident since Thanksgiving 2012.

She was born in Toulon, Ill., near West Jersey, on June 13, 1922, to Patrick Leo and Mary Jane Kane Donovan. She married Jeremiah “Jerry” R. Cotter on Sept. 20, 1947, in Peoria. He died on April 21, 2000. Her parents, five brothers, an infant sister and her son, Robert “Bob”, also preceded her in death.

Surviving are two daughters, Mary Jean Tarrant of Greenbrier, Tenn., and Janet (David) Anderson of Naperville; two sons, Christopher (Jackie) of Winnetka and John (Theresa) of Tiskilwa; 15 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.