Pat Nixon

== Death and funeral ==
Pat Nixon died at her Park Ridge, New Jersey, home at 5:45&nbsp;a.m. on June 22, 1993, the day after her fifty-third wedding anniversary.<ref>{{cite book |title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents |date=1993 |publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration |page=1157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axYYAAAAYAAJ |language=en |access-date=June 22, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705071255/https://books.google.com/books?id=axYYAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was 81 years old. Her daughters and husband were by her side.

The funeral service for Pat Nixon took place on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda on June 26, 1993. Speakers at the ceremony, including [[Governor of California|California Governor]] [[Pete Wilson]], Kansas senator [[Bob Dole]], and the Reverend Dr. [[Billy Graham]], eulogized the former First Lady. In addition to her husband and immediate family, former presidents [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Gerald Ford]] and their wives, [[Nancy Reagan|Nancy]] and [[Betty Ford|Betty]], were also in attendance.<ref name="PN funeral">{{cite web|url= http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=PNfuneral|title= Funeral Services of Mrs. Nixon|access-date= October 2, 2007|year= 2005|publisher= Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation|archive-date= June 9, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150609075721/http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=PNfuneral|url-status= live}}</ref> President [[Bill Clinton]] and First Lady [[Hillary Clinton]] did not attend the funeral and former presidents [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[George H. W. Bush]] and their wives [[Rosalynn Carter|Rosalynn]] and [[Barbara Bush|Barbara]] also did not attend. [[Lady Bird Johnson]] was unable to attend because she was in the hospital recovering from a stroke, and [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] did not attend either.<ref name="PN funeral"/> President Nixon sobbed openly, profusely, and at times uncontrollably during the ceremony. It was a rare display of emotion from the former president, and Helen McCain Smith and Ed Nixon both said they had never seen him more distraught.{{sfnp|Thomas|1999|p=258}}<ref>{{cite book| last = Brower| first = Kate Andersen| date = 2016| title = First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies | location = 195 Broadway New York, NY 10007| publisher = HarperCollins Publishers Inc.	| page = 321 | isbn = 9780062439666}}</ref>

Nixon's tombstone gives her name as "Patricia Ryan Nixon", the name by which she was popularly known. Her husband survived her by ten months, [[Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon|dying]] on April 22, 1994. He was also 81.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/nixobit.htm|title=Richard M. Nixon, 37th President, Dies|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=August 2, 2008|author1=Weil, Martin|author2=Randolph, Eleanor|date=April 23, 1994|archive-date=August 30, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830003955/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/nixobit.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Her [[epitaph]] reads:

{{blockquote|Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.}}