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42 Pat Reser
Patricia Reser is many things: a retired public schoolteacher; a mother of five; a grandmother and great-grandmother; a lifelong learner who, post-retirement, pursued a master’s degree in interdisciplinary arts. She is the widow of the late Al Reser, whose mother Mildred’s potato salad business grew into a billion-dollar, multi-generational family business. And in addition to being one of Oregon’s most visionary philanthropists and arts advocates, she is an artist in her own right, a painter who finds herself happily experimenting in her home studio—when she’s not running the Reser Family Foundation or collecting Lifetime Achievement awards.
