Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Patti is the fifth of six children. She grew up in Corinth, Mississippi, and always enjoyed singing in church and singing to her cats. After graduating from the Colombia School of Broadcasting, Patti worked as a disc jockey at WCMA Radio Station in Corinth and was active in the Corinth Theatre Arts as an Assistant Director and performer.
Married, with cats, she moved to Houston, Texas, spending the next few years working as an executive secretary for an electrical firm. In 1978, she moved back home to her beloved Mississippi, and one again her theatrical yearnings found the purr-fect outlet when she joined the Tupelo Community Theatre. There she worked on numerous tech crews, performed in several plays, served as a board member and directed three TCT productions.

Just like her cats, always looking for a new adventure, Patti joined the Tupelo Police Department Reserve Unit
and became their first female graduate. Being married to a police officer at the time, she saw a need for the officers' wives to have a forum of their own and organized the Tupelo Police Wives Auxiliary. Needing a paying
job to support her volunteer habits, Patti became a typist for Way-Fil Jewelry. She is now the owner of the store were she designs, manufactures, repairs and appraises all types of jewelry and is one of the two most sought after jewelry appraisers in the state.

Patti serves as a Board Member for the Mississippi Jewelers Association and past-Board member of the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society. Patti and her cats have, over the years, opened their home to host six European exchange students through the Educational Foundation. The cats are always available for a lap sitting session whenever one of the students gets a little homesick or finds America too overwhelming. In Cat Hymns, Patti was the voice of Gwenipurr. At First Baptist Church in Verona, Mississippi, she is the soprano in the third pew from the back.

A long friendship and leaning on each other in times of trouble resulted in marriage for Stephen and Patti Thompson. They met when Tupelo Community Theatre underwent a major renovation. Patti was on the Board of Directors and Stephen headed the design team that made the interior selections.

This dynamic team have not only been happy, but creative and productive as well! Certainly their teamwork on Cat Hymns has been for them a fun and rich blessing. Their seven cats, A.J., (Adolph, Jr.), Krispy Kritter, Sister Very Merry Phyllis, O.J., Mamma Kitty, Taz, and Spike, allow them to share their home in Tupelo, and server as the inspiration for Cat Hymns!