Funeral Announced For Alexandria's Former Mayor Patsy Ticer

ALEXANDRIA, VA—Funeral services are set for Patsy Ticer Alexandria's first female mayor and four-term state senator. A resident of Alexandria, she died Monday, Aug. 7 at a hospital at age 82.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 18 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (228 S. Pitt Street), Mayor Allison Silberberg announced. A reception will follow at The Lyceum, (201 S. Washington Street). Visitation with her family will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Thursday, Aug. 17, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the donations can be made to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Sweet Briar College, and the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust.

According to Ticer's daughter Margaret Janowsky, she died from complications after a fall.

Ticer served three terms on the Alexandria City Council in the 1980s before becoming mayor. She served as vice mayor to Jim Moran and took over as mayor in 1991 when Moran won a seat in Congress.

She held this position from 1991 to 1996, when she then won a state Senate seat over incumbent Republican Robert Calhoun. She served four terms and did not seek reelection in 2011. During this time, she fought for the Chesapeake bay cleanup and served as chair of the Senate’s Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee.

Born in 1935, Ticer grew up in Alexandria. She attended Sweet Briar College, an all-women’s school in Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Ticer had also helped form the Alexandria Commission for the Arts and was involved in several PTAS, community and charitable organizations.

Public officials from the city and across the state shared tributes to Ticer after the news broke: