Pat Neff Groner

Pat Neff Groner (1920-2012) was a Marine Corps aviator in World War II, a hospital administrator in Pensacola, Florida, a developer of retirement communities, a member of the Florida Board of Regents and a leader in numerous charitable organizations.
Early life
Groner was born to Frank Shelby Groner and Laura Virginia Wyatt Groner in Dallas, Texas where his father, a lawyer and a Baptist minister, was executive secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He was named for Patrick Morris Neff, president of Baylor University and Governor of Texas who was a close friend of his father. He was the youngest of seven children of whom five survived childhood. When his father became President of the College of Marshall (now East Texas Baptist University),
During his tenure at Baptist Hospital, Groner instituted numerous advances in health care, including a post-operative recovery room, an intensive coronary care unit, an outpatient surgical care unit, and Life Flight. a Pensacola retirement community in 1980.
Personal life
Groner married Louise Mary Rugg (b. 1920), a native of Essex Junction, Vermont, in California on May 5, 1944. on Thursday, December 20, 2012.<ref name="obituary" />
Congressman Jeff Miller said:

"As a boy, Mr. Groner's father instilled in him the belief that health care is a profession closely connected with faith, and in addition to his passion for flying, his care for others and faith in God never faded."<ref name="CongressionalRecord" />

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