Patricia "Pat" Reilly passed away on Saturday, June 6, at her home in Middleburg, VA. She was 78. All are welcome to join in celebrating Pat's life. Visitation will be held at Hall Funeral Home in Purcellville, VA on Friday, June 19, from 6:00-8:00 pm. Her funeral will be at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Saturday, June 20, 2026, at 10 am. There will be a reception at Emmanuel Episcopal Church with light refreshments to follow. Interment at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery will follow the reception. Her funeral will be live streamed at https://www.emmanuelmiddleburg.org/live-stream.
Pat served as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English at Bassa High School in Buchanan, Liberia, from 1972-1975. Her Peace Corps experience became a lifelong commitment as she remained involved with Friends of Liberia as a board member for more than 20 years.
Since 1998, Pat helped to design and secure funding for the Liberian Education Assistance Project (LEAP) a teacher-training project focused on early childhood education in Liberian schools that ran successfully until 2014, when it transitioned to a Liberian-led program. In 2014, she helped establish Liberia's Family Literacy Initiative (FLI), which is an internationally recognized model that continues today under Friends of Liberia's partnership with a Liberian non-governmental organization. During the Ebola crisis of 2014-2015, she helped raise $100,000 and those funds were used to award small grants to communities working on prevention and treatment. Pat was also fundamental in advocating to establish the FOL Legacy Circle.
