Patricia Ann Theophilos

1948-2017

Patricia Ann Theophilos (“Pat”) passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at age 69, at home in Piedmont, California after a short, but very brave battle with cancer. She is survived by her devoted husband, Tony, their daughter and son-in-law, Wendy and Fraser Coleman, her grandsons, Fraser, Jr, and Theo, her sister, Charlotte Grass, and her sister and brother-in-law, Bobbi Panter and Matthew Arnoux, her mother, Rita Johnson, and, not to be forgotten, her loyal Wheaton, Maggie. She is predeceased by her father, Charles Panter, and stepfather, Calvin Johnson.

Pat was born on April 14, 1948 in Youngstown, Ohio to Rita and Charles Panter. She grew up in Wheaton, Illinois and attended Wheaton Central High School. After graduating high school, Pat attended Iowa Wesleyan College, where on the first day of school she met her future husband, Tony. At the end of Pat’s first year, she and Tony eloped to Washington D.C. where they were married on June 21, 1967. Later that year, their daughter Wendy was born. Pat worked to put Tony through undergraduate and law school, after which they moved to San Francisco for Tony’s law practice. Pat returned to school and completed her Bachelor of Science in Finance and Business Administration in 1980 at San Francisco State University. At the time of her passing, Pat and Tony were married two weeks short of 50 years.

Pat lived her life to the fullest and with the utmost energy and grace. She spent over 40 years in the banking industry. Much of her career was at Citicorp in San Francisco, where she rose to become Vice President and Area Director for Citicorp Real Estate, the commercial real estate subsidiary of Citigroup, with responsibility for a $2 billion portfolio of commercial and residential loans located throughout the country. After leaving Citicorp, Pat continued to rise through the banking industry as Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at Pacific National Bank, Senior Vice President and Market Manager at US Bank and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Bank of the Orient. Pat was also a principal in Lakeview Ventures for many years with Tony, where they owned and managed multifamily projects in the Bay Area and assembled and entitled a 141 residential site (Symphony Towers) on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. For the past several years, Pat was an independent consultant in the financial services, banking and real estate industries. Pat absolutely loved her work and the people she worked with. She was a great leader with the utmost of integrity, who thoroughly enjoyed working on a team and mentoring others. She was fiercely loyal and leaves an impressive real estate legacy throughout the Bay Area and California.

Even more important to Pat than her work was her philanthropy. Pat spent much of her free time giving back and served on the board of numerous nonprofits over the span of 30 years. Pat started her work on non-profit boards by serving for over ten years on the board of Bay Area dance group ODC, including four years as Chair. She joined the Cal Performances Board of Trustees in 1996, becoming Vice Chair in 2000 and Chair from 2008 to 2012. Pat helped guide Cal Performances through one of its most challenging fundraising periods in recent memory, and steered the search for the organization’s first new Artistic Director in 23 years, Matías Tarnopolsky. Pat also served on the boards of the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center, the UC Berkeley ImpactMBA Advisory Board, the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and, most recently, the San Francisco YMCA.

Pat was a member of Claremont Country Club, where she chaired the Wine Committee for almost a decade. In addition, Pat was recently invited to join Town and Country Club in San Francisco (founded in 1893, the second oldest women’s club in the United States) where she was immediately asked to join their Wine Committee. Pat loved gardening and was an active and enthusiastic member of the Piedmont Garden Club. Further, Pat had a deep appreciation of the arts in all forms. She was a long-standing season ticket holder of the San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Symphony and a long standing member of the De Young Museum, SF MOMA, and the Legion of Honor. Pat also loved traveling the world and spending time with Tony and family at their second home on Anna Maria Island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Pat was a loving and devoted mother and grandmother who enjoyed socializing with her friends and playing with her weekly bridge group. Above all, Pat loved her family and being with them. She will be dearly missed.

The family will host a celebration of life at Claremont Country Club in Oakland on Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Pat’s honor to the San Francisco YMCA or Cal Performances.