Mrs Fordice was called the "Eternal First Lady" and received numerous awards for her activities both during and after her husband's tenure as governor.
11 Facts About Pat Fordice
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Pat Fordice was listed in 2000 in Marquis Who's Who in the World and the following year in the Cambridge Press's 1000 Great Americans.
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Pat Fordice received the Medal of Honor from the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Pat Fordice was knighted as "Dame of Grace" by the Russian Orthodox Order in recognition of humanitarian efforts on behalf of the city of St Petersburg, Russia.
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Kirk Pat Fordice then became ill with cancer, and his ex-wife was at his side when he died at the age of seventy in 2004.
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In November 2005, Pat Fordice resigned as the city of Jackson's interim head of Human and Cultural Services.
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Pat Fordice was a co-host of Woman to Woman, with Juanita Sims Doty, on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
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Pat Fordice appeared in a series of commercials for Keep Mississippi Beautiful and the Mississippi Department of Transportation as part of its anti-littering campaign.
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One commercial showed Mrs Pat Fordice saying, "I'm Not Your Mama-Pick it up, Mississippi".
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Pat Fordice died in 2007, aged 72, of cancer at her home in Madison, Mississippi.
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Pat Fordice is interred at Parkway Memorial Cemetery in Ridgeland.