Spoiler : Born in Harvard, Illinois (some sources say Bloomington, Illinois) 5/20/1911; died 2/24/2003 from complications of pneumonia at a nursing home in San Francisco. Married to Richard Zeller (?-1990 his death). Following graduation from high school, dunlap changed her name from Ethel to Patricia and moved to Chicago to become an actor, making her radio debut there in 1931.

Spoiler : One of two actresses that played Gladys Pendleton on the NBC-Radio soap, Ma Perkins (1933- 1960). Nad on Og, Son Of Fire for CBS-Radio (1934-1935). Janet Ryder on the CBS and NBC Radio Network soap, Bachelor's Children (1936-1946). Pat Curtis on the CBS and NBC Radio Network soap, This Day Is Ours (1938-1940). One of two actresses to play Nancy Brewster on That Brewster Boy for NBC-Radio (1941-1942). Bertha Schultz on the NBC-Radio soap, Lonely Women (1942-1943). Bertha Schultz on the NBC-Radio soap, Today's Children (1943-1950). Sandra Lake on Crime Files Of Flamond in syndication and for Mutual-Radio (1946-1948). Fran Sample on Cousin Willie for NBC-Radio (1953). Betty Fairfield on Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy for ABC- Radio during the middle to late 1940's; again on Armstrong Of The SBI for ABC-Radio (1950- 1951).

Spoiler : At sometime, Dunlap and her husband moved to Southern California where she studied painting. Sometime in the late 1950s, the couple moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, setting in Berkeley. Dunlap's paintings were sold in the Bay Area.