The second of four children born to her parents in Hillsboro, Kansas, Pat Jost grew up on their farm. As a teenager she proudly tells how her mother became the first woman dietician of Tabor College.
Pat’s first encounter with Leland Nuss, from Lehigh, was in a Hillsboro drugstore matching pennies.
This meeting was the springboard into their sixty-two-year union as husband and wife who farmed and raised stock in Hillsboro as well as parenting two daughters (residing in the Kansas City area) and a son (living in Hillsboro).
Pat’s experience in baking and food preparation obviously has been carried on by her daughters who established The Upper Crust Pie Shop in Overland Park, Kansas and continue to serve a dedicated customer base, far and wide, today as the business thrives now under new management.
Learn about Pat and her friends, the West Side Girl, during their interview with KSN News: Westside Girls prove you can make new friends at any age
Besides her many fine domestic skills, Pat worked outside the home at Remax (in association with Ron Harder), handling residential real estate sales in the Newton/Hillsboro areas for some fifteen years and as a broker managing the business.
The strong Nuss family and faith ties have nurtured, sustained, and strengthened them; especially, during the COVID pandemic and Leland’s end-of-life journey in 2021 when understandably hard decisions concerning the best comfort care for all needed to be put in place. Kansas Christian Home was privileged to offer service and assistance.
These days Pat enjoys caring for her three goldfish, named by her grandchildren, and living on our campus where she considers herself one of the “West Side Gals” savoring friendships and social gatherings with other women on the block who meet twice a week.