 Martin Luther King, Jr. and personally offered her condolences to Coretta Scott King, his widow.Patten died at 90 years of age on January 25, 2004, after a long illness.Patten’s second husband, C. Thomas Patten, died in 1958, and two of her children predeceased her, Thomas Patten, Jr. in 1989 and Priscilla Benham in 2000.