Mary Alice Crabill Patterson (February 8, 1927 – November 11, 2016) was an American singer and politician.
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on February 8, 1927, to Jacob and Mary Emmaline Crabill, Mary Alice Crabill earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Sioux Falls.
[1] Crabill met Perry Patterson in 1949, and married him in 1954.
[2] The couple returned to South Dakota, and both taught at the University of Sioux Falls.
[4] Patterson contested the 2000 and 2004 state house elections, losing both times.