My Wife and the love of a lifetime, the mother of our three children, Jon, Alan and Elizabeth, Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland "Yet-choo-nook " September 5, 1948-May 30, 2014, El Cajon, California
Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland
suffered a heart attack early Monday morning May 26 and passed
away quietly Friday morning at May 30, 2014 at 945AM with all of her family
with her at her side. She is with the Lord our god, The Eagles, The
Bear and Wolf and now with her Mother, Father and Brother.....Thanks
for all your kind support and love for our Patsy...Love to
all....mgb
Services for our Pat
were held this past Sunday evening at
600PM June 1st, 2014 at the First Spanish Southern Baptis
Church, 537 G Ave, National City, California. Thank all of you who
could make it for our Patricia. I have added the slide show
presented during Sunday service onto her celebration of life page
above for many of you who could not attend. Her son Alan put it
together with help of his brother and sister and others in the
family.
Internment for Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland will be Friday June 20th at 2PM. She will be interned at Singing Hills Memorial Park, 2200 Dehesa Road, El Cajon, California 92019, in the Whispering Waters area of the park. Internment services will include the church and Native American rites and will be open to all family and friends. Pastor Marco Aceves will do the graveside internment service followed by her cousin, Keith Turner, a Elder and Spiritual Leader from her Native American Heritage who is coming from Auberry, California, Northeast of Fresno. For any one attending please feel free to come by our home after the services at 600 Coldstream Drive El Cajon, California 92020-7721
Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland was born September 5, 1948 at Balboa
Naval Hospital, San Diego, California to her parents Grace Elizabeth
Roccoforte Murphy and Thurman Higgins Murphy Jr., a serving US
Marine. She grew up
initially in the Logan Heights area of San Diego attending St Rita’s
Catholic School. She was raised as a Catholic. Her family moved to
National City where she completed Jr High and graduated in 1966 from
Sweetwater High School. After high school she went on to
Southwestern College majoring in Business while working in a local
bank, living for some time with girl friends in apartment in Bonita.
After two years, she transferred to San Diego State University in
the Business program doing her junior year before taking a job as a
medical secretary in the Radiology Department at Scripps Hospital,
La Jolla, California.
In May of 1973 she met her future husband Ensign Michael Gordon
Brattland from Carmichael, California at the Officer’s Club at the
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. He asked her to marry him in
November of 1973 and on June 15, 1974 was married in the Chula Vista
Lutheran Church. June 15, 2014 would have been her 40th
wedding anniversary. They lived in a little duplex down on 5th
Avenue in Chula Vista, later moving to a home at Telegraph Canyon
and I-805 in late 1974.
In January of 1976 Lt Michael G. Brattland USN received orders as
officer recruiter for the US Navy in Albany New York where they
moved via a two month stop in Pensacola, Florida, before arriving in
snow swept upstate New York in March 1976. They bought their first
house on Debbie Court in the Village of Colonie, New York, a suburb
of Albany. On February 26, 1978 Pat delivered her first son, Jon
Ryan Brattland at Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York.
Six months later in October 1978, Lt Michael G. Brattland USN
received orders to serve with the Royal Navy at RNAS Portland,
Dorset, UK.
Michael, Pat and baby Jon
lived in Weymouth across the bay from the naval air station right on
the English Channel. In April 1981, LCDR Michael G. Brattland USN
received orders back to NAS North Island, Coronado, California.
Michael and Pat bought their second home, a newly constructed home
in the area of Briarwood and the South Bay Freeway and stayed till
the summer of 1986. On December 19, 1981 Pat delivered her second
son, Alan Michael Brattland at Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego,
California. The family joined the Chula Vista Presbyterian Church as
members.
In April 1986 Cdr Michael G. Brattland USN received orders to the
Navy Department in the Pentagon and the family moved back across the
country to a home in Franklin Farms, Fairfax, Virginia in July,
1986. On August 3, 1987 Patricia delivered her daughter, Elizabeth
Joy Brattland at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland.
In July, 1988, Cdr Michael G. Brattland USN received orders back to
the USS Constellation CV-64 in San Diego. The family bought their
third and final home in El Cajon, California. They joined the El
Cajon Presbyterian Church and attended in the late 80s and early
90s. All the children attended Chase Ave and Anza Elementary
Schools, Greenfield Jr High and all graduated from Valhalla High
School in El Cajon. Alan and Elizabeth attended Cuyamaca College.
Jon did also and then transferred to San Diego State University
graduating in June of 2004.
In June 1994, Pat donated one of her kidneys to her son Alan
Michael Brattland at UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, California.
Pat’s family heritage is Italian from her mother and California
Native American and a little Irish from her father.
Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland was very proud of her Native
American heritage as a Yokuts/Pomo Indian. She has taken the
name of her great grandmother, Yet-choo-nook. She has been
designated as the Most Likely Descendent of the Kechayi Band of
Yokuts by the California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC).
Appointed by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF/Cal
Fire) to the Native American Advisory Council (NAAC).
Pat is the Great Grand Daughter to Yet-choo-nook, English name,
Ellen Murphy. Ellen Murphy was born in 1841 in Fresno County
near Auberry, California. Ellen Murphy's Mother was Wa-see-it,
Dumna (Cassons according to BIA enrollment records) and
Kachayi Yokuts. According to the BIA, Ellen Murphy's Father was
Soda-guy-dona, (another spelling: Gaida'na) Kechayi Yokuts.
Soda-guy-dona or Gai-da-na was Wa-see-it's 2nd husband.
Family records and Ellen Murphy indicate Chief Katana,
(another spelling possibly, Ki-tah-nah) one of 400 Chiefs to have
signed Treaties with the State in 1851 was her father. There could
be another spelling of his name or he could have been called by
another name as the name Katana or Ki-tah-nah does not appear on the
Treaties. The BIA enrollment records have
Yet-choo-nook and her family and the descendents that
registered, enrolled as Cassons/Kechayi Yokuts.
Domingo-Perez, Tom-mas(aka Tom-kit, aka Tom-quit, aka Toom-mas) and
Jose-Antonio, who were all in Ellen Murphy's family, were
signers of Treaties N, at Camp Barbour, on the San Joaquin
River in 1851. Tom-mas(aka Tom-kit, aka Tom-quit, aka Toom-mas) was
Ellen Murphy's grandfather. In fact, our peoples, historical
records will show have always been Dumna Yokuts of
Table Mountain Rancheria in Friant, California, ancestral land of
the Dumna people. Questions will always remain why we are called
Cassons. Cassons was a generic name given to many of the San
Joaquin Valley Tribes.
Pat is an elder of the
Dumna-Kechayi Yokuts of Millerton, California.
Pat worked in retail in the 90s in the local Hallmark stores, Macy’s
in Parkway Plaza, El Cajon and a year in the gift shop at Barona
Casino. Later, she went back to her work roots and worked at Scripps
Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest before retiring.
Pat had a passion for her Coldstream Drive neighbors and friends,
freely helping and enjoying them. She loved her front rear gardens
spending hours looking after her beautiful plants and roses....and
as a native to San Diego, she had passion for the beach,
particularly her special beach on the south side of the Hotel Del
next to Seal Beach. She loved that beach. In these final years she
so wanted to actually to the beach down with our friends, the Phelps
along Elm Ave in Imperial Beach, but we just could not manage it.
Lastly she loved her children and family and gave so much to them
all through their lives....and to me as well the husband. We love
her dearly.
Patricia Ann Murphy Brattland suffered a severe heart attack in the
early morning hours of Monday May 26th and passed away on
Friday May 30, 2014 at the age of 65. She leaves behind her husband,
Cdr Michael G. Brattland USN-Ret, her two sons, Jon Ryan Brattland,
Alan Michael Brattland and daughter, Elizabeth Joy Brattland of El
Cajon California. She is also survived by her sisters Josephine
Pineda of Vista, California, Mary Lou Belvedere of Provo, Utah and
Vickie McQuade of Moshein, Tennessee, along with many nieces and
nephews in the greater San Diego, Provo, Utah and Moshein, Tennessee
areas.
Again thank you so
much for all the many messages, visits phone calls of support,
concern and love...More on our Patsy to follow....thank you....mgb