Nurses Linda Patterson of Dwight, and her daughter Dani Patterson of Topeka will be honored Saturday in Manhattan at the K-State – Oklahoma State basketball game. 

They will be recognized for saving the life of a K-State fan, according to Dr. Tom Craig, Junction City internist.

This happened during the Kansas State – Oklahoma football game on Nov. 23 when a fellow fan sitting just two rows in front of Linda and Dani had a heart attack and went into cardiac arrest. While Dani proceeded with CPR, Linda was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, guiding EMS to their location. The man was transported to Mercy Regional Medical Center. Dr. Craig said, “He is alive and well today having suffered the cardiac arrest due to the occlusion of his right coronary artery.”

A pre-game reception will also be held to honor the Pattersons and the other first responders and their families.  The patient will be there to meet those who saved his life. An in-game ceremony will celebrate the life-savers as well.

Linda Patterson, licensed practical nurse, began working for Geary Community Hospital in July 1980 and retired in March 2009. She returned to work PRN ( as needed ) for Geary Community Hospital in Dr. Craig’s clinic two months later. She spent most of her 29-year career at GCH as an emergency department nurse.

Dani Patterson is a registered nurse at Stormont Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka and is a member of the Faculty Board of the American Heart Association. She worked for GCH in registration in the early 1980s, then as a licensed practical nurse for Dr. Craig, and then as a registered nurse in the mid-1990’s.