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WATCH: Hundreds Gather to Remember Patty Rouse
Family and friends of Patty Rouse gathered in Columbia Monday for a memorial service to the local icon.
Approximately 500 Columbia residents, past and present, gathered at on Monday to remember , co-founder of Enterprise Community Partners and the widow of Columbia visionary James Rouse.
Born Patricia Traugott in 1927, she was raised in Norfolk, VA, and graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1948. She married Jim Rouse and moved to Columbia in 1974.
Close family and friends attended a private burial after the memorial, according to the Christ Episcopal Church website.
Rouse is survived by a sister, two sons, a daughter and nine grandchildren.
Her husband, the developer of Columbia, died in 1996.
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