Rena Ann Laudette Patton, age 71, of Kenedy, Texas, passed away July 21, 2017 in Kenedy, Texas. She was born on March 12, 1946 in Tacoma, WA, to the late Mike and Tilly Jane Smith Laudette.  On September 29, 1968, she married Clifford Neill Patton in San Antonio, Texas.  She was a nurses aid, a homemaker and a member of The Word Fellowship Church.  She is preceded in death by parents, Mike and Tilly Jane Smith Laudette; sisters, Elsie Forman and Patsy Smith; and three deceased brothers.

She is survived by her loving husband, Clifford Neill Patton of Kenedy; daughters, Rose Jane Macklin of Beeville, Texas and Callie Marie Nelson and husband, Christopher of Kenedy, Texas; and sister, Evelyn Wade of Llano, Texas.

Visitation will be held Wednesday, July 26, 2017, from 9A.M. to 11A.M. in the Eckols Funeral Home Chapel. Services will begin at 11A.M., Wednesday, July 26, 2017 in the Eckols Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Walter Hill, III officiating.  Interment will follow in the Kenedy Cemetery.