“It is nice to be nice and it doesn’t cost a dime.” This was Patrick Mullen’s mantra, and he repeated these words frequently. He tried to live up to them, but like most of us, he was sometimes challenged.
In the late 1950s, Pat, Monica and their daughter, Adrienne, joined the wave of Irish immigration to Toronto. With other new immigrants, Pat founded the Irish Immigrant Aid Society, and years later at one of their community dances he found a husband for Adrienne. He was proud of his daughter and her family.
Monica and Pat became foster parents for the Catholic Children’s Aid Society. For the next 25 years their home was filled with hundreds of children who needed love and acceptance, stability and empathy. With his charm and humour he gave them a sense of family and belonging. Many of these children attended his funeral.
Skateboarding, bike riding and dancing kept Pat healthy and fitter than most men his age. He was active into his early 90s and had difficulty accepting he had to slow down. He loved ballroom dancing and swirled around the dancefloor whenever he had the chance. He was very good at ceil folk dancing, which provided him with much joy, exercise and companionship with the Irish community.
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