Bio:Patrick G. Conner
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Patrick G. Conner, 67, of Kailua Kona, died Friday, February 19th, 2016, at his residence.
He was a Gold Seal Graduate, National Merit Scholar, and later Magna Cum Laude from Berkeley. Pat was a true eclectic and Renaissance man. As a teen Boy Scout, he was in Order of the Arrow and a Lodge Chief. In college, he was part of the events at People’s Park.
Musician and performer: In high school, Pat sang lead vocals and played guitar for the folk group The Harrison Road Trio, who opened for such groups as The Association at the Ice House in Pasadena, CA. He was a guitarist and busker on Carnaby Street in London during the 60s, and later tread the boards as a rousing King Henry at 1520 AD in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA.
Graphic artist, copywriter, editor, artist/painter: Pat edited and wrote for Black Belt Magazine, Probe the Unknown, and several other publications. He owned an advertising agency in California featuring such clients as Oakleaf Computer, Guy Chaddick Furniture, and Lista Furniture. In Kona, he owned Hawaii Advertising, and had such clients as Coffee and Candies of Hawaii, Don Ho Chocolates, Kona Mountain Coffee, Hawaiian Tropical Flowers, Mrs. Barry’s Cookies, Sugai Coffee, The Club, the PGA annual tournament, Kilauea Trading Company, and Sam Choy’s Kona Cuisine. For them, he created logos, wrote copy and newsletters, and designed bags, boxes, posters and more, over a span of 23 years. He painted a dozen acrylic paintings that graced the walls of his home, and made a wide array of artistic renderings of various types throughout his life. A published science fiction writer from the 70s, Pat most recently wrote and self-published five science fiction novels with his wife, Colleen: The Thunder Valley ‘Trilogy’.
Church Involvement: Pat and his wife, Colleen, were mini-church assistants, then pastors, at Church On The Way in Van Nuys, CA, under Jack Hayford, for eight years. In Kona, he was a church council member at Hope Chapel, and he and Colleen were lay chaplains at Kona Hospital for several years.
The five books that he wrote in the past few years under various pen names, well, he’d be tickled pink if you read them... The Thunder Valley trilogy includes these titles, all self-published on Amazon: 'The End of the Computer', 'The Final World Order', 'The First Commune', 'The Scientists', and 'Fireside Stories'.