Patricia H. (Harding) Higgins, age 86, passed away peacefully November 4, 2023 due to cancer. She was born in China, Maine, and is a graduate of Erskine Academy and Thomas Business School. She married her life time love Milton Higgins in 1955. Together in 1964 they moved to Belmont and raised their six children. 

Patricia will be remembered for her passionate love for her family, church family and community of friends. She was teased that she never met a stranger, just friends she hadn’t hugged yet. 

Her main hobby was people and her life’s purpose was to spread God’s love with a servant’s heart. 

Patricia is predeceased by her parents, Lawrence and Gladys Harding of China; in-laws, Roland and Muriel Higgins of Albion; siblings Dennis Harding, Nelson Harding and Muriel Adams of China; her beloved husband, Milton Higgins Sr.; and daughters Sandra Littlefield of Charlotte and Sally Higgins of Belmont.   

Patricia is survived by her sisters Marilyn Levesque, Priscilla Gould and brother in-law Allen Higgins; her children Susan and Dale Finley of Northport, Sharon and Carmen Torrey of Dawsonville, Georgia, Shirley and David Diepenbrock of Deltona, Florida, and Milton and Wendy Higgins Jr. of Swanville. 

Patricia has 14 grandchildren: Sonja, Crissy, Amanda, Victoria, James, Travis, Patrick, Carmen Rae, Anna, Tristan, Caitie, Ashley, John and Elias, plus 18 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. All of these she loved and touched deeply. 

Please join us for a visitation Saturday, November 11, 2023, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Riposta Funeral Home in Belfast, and a Celebration of Life on Sunday, November 12, at 2 p.m., at Veracity Chapel (Morrill Baptist Church) in Morrill, Maine.    

In lieu of flowers gifts can be sent for the new church building for the Ivanga people of Papua New Guinea at https://ethnos360.org/missionaries/david-and-shirley-diepenbrock (https://ethnos360.org/missionaries/david-and-shirley-diepenbrock)

Or to the Childhood Evangelism Fellowship Neighborhood House in Belfast, Maine. https://www.cefofmaine.org/chapters/the-neighborhood-house/

Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.ripostafh.com