Patricia Steeley Wolfinger

Patricia Steeley Wolfinger, 71, a former investment adviser who was active in Democratic politics, died of pancreatic cancer Friday at her home at the Lutheran Community at Telford.

Born in West Rockhill Township, she graduated from Pennridge High School in 1955 and later from the Lansdale School of Business.

Mrs. Wolfinger began as a bookkeeper with Kramer's Creamery in Franconia Township in the late 1950s, was a secretary in the early 1960s with the Sellersville legal firm of Rufe & Rufe, and until 1970 was a clerk for District Justice Kathryn L. Stump in Quakertown.

In the 1970s and most of the 1980s, she was an estate appraiser with the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, before becoming an investment adviser for the Quakertown National Bank into the early 1990s.

After retiring, she was a part-time bookkeeper with Belle Haven Nursing Home in Quakertown.

Mrs. Wolfinger was a committeewoman for the Upper Bucks County Democratic Committee and an officer of the Pennridge Democratic Club.

She was president of the church council at St. Michael's Evangelical Church in Sellersville several times, most recently in 2007, and a corporation board member of the Lutheran Community at Telford.

Mrs. Wolfinger is survived by sons Scott and Kevin, daughter Robin Rowell, a brother, eight grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. Her husband of 43 years, Thomas, died in 1999.

Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 25 E. Church St., Sellersville, followed by an 11 a.m. funeral there. Burial will be in Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Prospectville.