Patty Petersen

The youngest of three children, Patty Petersen was born on December 2, 1954, in Glendale, California. When her parents divorced in 1962, she and older brother Paul Petersen moved in with their mother, who later remarried. Paul Petersen costarred on ABC's "The Donna Reed Show". Patty was written into the cast as Trisha, an adopted child after Shelley Fabares left the series. She stayed with the show until it ended in 1966.

After many commercials and industrial films, she semi-retired to marry and rear a family of her own. She was a country songwriter/singer for a while. She now spells her name Patti. Patti is a writer and founder of Internovel, an Internet company for novice authors. Patti Petersen Mirkovich is a teacher of English and computer science at a Roman Catholic school. She is also a volunteer coach for the girls' softball team and has taken teams into the Southern California finals. She has two children, Tim and Melissa.

Sources

*The official Paul Petersen website
*The Donna Reed Center for Performing Arts