A Legend in Skip Tracing Passes

For fifty-seven years, Pat Bivens served Summs Skip and Collection Service, Inc. Over that time she rose to the position of Vice President and became one of the greatest skip tracers in the history of the industry. So, it is with the heaviest of hearts that I must report her passing last Saturday morning.

Pat worked with Summs Recovery, one of the oldest family owned repossession agencies, for 57 years and was known as one of the best and well known skip tracers in the industry. Throughout the country Pat was well known in the repossession industry and she will be greatly missed.

Patricia Cooper Bivens

A Legend in Skip Tracing Passes — Skip Tracing Legend Patricia Cooper Bivens

Patricia Cooper “Pat” Bivens, 80, of 502 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Saturday, November 23, 2024, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Edenton.

Mrs. Bivens was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 16, 1944, and was one of eight children born to the late Denzil and Marion Allnutt Cooper. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters, Nancy Schiskie, Sharon Gordon, and Delaine Cosgrove; and by brothers, infant Reuben Dee Cooper and Denzil “Scooter” Cooper.

A retired vice president from Summs Skip Collateral Solutions where she worked for 57 years, she had been an active member of Credit Professionals International where she had served as treasurer and as president of the Norfolk, VA chapter. Other areas of enjoyment included her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Pat was proud of her military service to the nation through the United States Navy where she worked in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG).

Surviving is her husband, Jesse Ray Bivens; two sisters, Cheryl Lynn Johnson of Brownsburg, IN and Donna Maye Smith of Princeton, MO; and several nieces, nephews, and extended members of both the Cooper and Bivens families.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, November 26th, at 11:00 a.m. in Faith Pentecostal Holiness Church and was conducted by Pastor Danny Gurganus. A private burial was conducted later that afternoon in West Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Elizabeth City.