Patti Tate

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Patricia Tate Whiting McCleary (née Barron), often called Patti Tate, was a fictional character on the now-cancelled American soap opera Search for Tomorrow. She was played by numerous actresses over the years, including Tina Sloan and Jacqueline Schultz (who played her at the show's end), but actresses Lynn Loring and Leigh Lassen are perhaps most identified with the role.

[edit] Jo's daughter

Patti was the daughter of Joanne Gardner and her first husband, Keith Barron (John Sylvester-White). After Keith had died in a car accident, Jo began to make a home for herself, knowing that she had a young daughter to raise. Patti had been a target of Keith's mother, Irene Barron, who tried to sue Jo for custody, but failed, and then tried to kidnap her.

She had a best friend in Janet Bergman, her next door neighbor, and the daughter of Stu and Marge Bergman.

When Jo married her second husband, Arthur Tate, he adopted Patti, giving her his last name. She had met and fallen in love with Dr. Len Whiting, a very weak man, who was a doctor, and she was hated by his mother, Andrea Whiting. However, Andrea had hidden from Len that he was the son of Sam Reynolds, who, by this time, was seeing Patti's mother, Jo. (Arthur having died of a heart attack)

Patti worked as a nurse at Henderson Hospital, and when she went through a difficult pregnancy, she was assigned nurse Stephanie Wilkins, who would later on become her mother's adversary. After Len had committed a crime, he and Patti left for Seattle and so did his mother, Andrea, now more caring and sympathetic.

Some years later, Patti (now played by Jacqueline Schultz) returned to Henderson to help her mother, and had explained that she and Len had divorced while they were in Seattle. She had fallen in love with Hogan McCleary and had married him on the final episode of Search for Tomorrow.