Pamela Kay Arundel

Pamela Kay (Farrah) Arundel, age 78, of Granville, Ohio, passed away on Friday, January 31, 2025 at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Pam was born November 20, 1946 in Peoria, Illinois to the late Anthony Blaine and Rosemary (Reddington) Farrah. After her parents divorced, Pamela’s mother Rosemary relocated Pamela and her brother Jeffrey to California where she met a tender soul named Gordon Henderson. Rosemary and Gordon married and remained so until their subsequent deaths.Pam went to high school at Jordan High School in Long Beach, California where she met and ultimately married her high school sweetheart, Paul Arundel in 1967. In 1971 they welcomed a daughter into the world, Elizabeth Pauline and in 1975 a son named Christopher Scott. They were married for 19 years before divorcing in 1986.Pam was an OB nurse for 40 years. Her joy was in the neonatal intensive care unit. The sick and premature infants in the NICU thrived under Pam’s nurturing and skilled care which became the hallmark of her nursing career. A graduate of nursing school in 1967, Pam knew her calling in this life at a very young age and helped countless babies go home healthy. Her happiest professional days were while working at Martin Luther Hospital in Anaheim, California. There she met and kept lifelong friendships with Maria Pacheco, Karen Bottom, Judy Sokatch and Jody Hammack. Pam worked at many other hospitals, including: South Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach, California & St Mary’s Hospital in Long Beach, California.Pam’s healing soul led her into the holistic arts to help treat and heal those suffering from ailments that western medicine could not cure. While never fully realizing this chapter of her calling to heal, she studied and investigated and saw tremendous possibilities in this field.Pam was an avid photographer, collector of all things penguin, and a die hard Harry Potter fan. But all those pale in comparison to her continued love for musician Neil Diamond. She even went so far as to put a license plate frame on her Datsun 280Z that read “Honk if you’re Neil Diamond.” While she got many a honk, alas it never was good ‘ol Neil. The last vehicle she owned bore the license plate “JAZSNGR” in honor of Mr. Diamond’s 1981 film “The Jazz Singer.”Pam is survived by her daughter Elizabeth, son Christopher, five grandchildren Olivia, Topher, Griffin, Maxwell and Tucker as well as her fur babies Artemis, Delilah, Winter, Shadow and Calliope the Rocket. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother Jeffrey (who passed at the age of 19) and step father Gordon Henderson.