ALVIN PATE
Funeral services for the Rev. John Alvin Pate Sr., 84, of Center were conducted at 3 p.m. June 11, in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. The Rev. Floyd Lawson and the Rev. Ed Rhodes officiated and burial was in the church cemetery under the direction of Mangum Funeral Home.
He died at 10:30 a.m. June 10, in the Medical Center Hospital at Nacogdoches, following a brief illness.
A native of Shelby County, he was born April 5, 1897. His parents were John Daniel Pate and Modenia Peace Pate. A World War I Veteran, he was a farmer and a long time minister of the gospel in Shelby County.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Nora Pate, of Center; a son, John Alvin Pate, Jr., of Dangerfield; six brothers, Vernice Pate, Minden, Louisiana, Otis Pate, Artis Pate, Bevie Pate and Rushing Pate all of Ringgold, Louisiana, and Aubrey Pate of East Mountain, Texas; a sister, Mrs Norma Wilson of Heflin, Louisiana; four grandchildren, Donna, Don. Debbie and Janet; two great-grandchildren; two step-daughters, Nonielee Gordon, Huges Springs and Marcell Windham of Center and one step-son, Raymond Risinger of Denver, Colorado.
Pallbearers were Doyce Strickland, Doyle Johnson, Lloyd Gordon, Buck Gordon, Aaron B. Gordon and Laurie Windham.
ALVIN PATE
Funeral services for the Rev. John Alvin Pate Sr., 84, of Center were conducted at 3 p.m. June 11, in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. The Rev. Floyd Lawson and the Rev. Ed Rhodes officiated and burial was in the church cemetery under the direction of Mangum Funeral Home.
He died at 10:30 a.m. June 10, in the Medical Center Hospital at Nacogdoches, following a brief illness.
A native of Shelby County, he was born April 5, 1897. His parents were John Daniel Pate and Modenia Peace Pate. A World War I Veteran, he was a farmer and a long time minister of the gospel in Shelby County.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Nora Pate, of Center; a son, John Alvin Pate, Jr., of Dangerfield; six brothers, Vernice Pate, Minden, Louisiana, Otis Pate, Artis Pate, Bevie Pate and Rushing Pate all of Ringgold, Louisiana, and Aubrey Pate of East Mountain, Texas; a sister, Mrs Norma Wilson of Heflin, Louisiana; four grandchildren, Donna, Don. Debbie and Janet; two great-grandchildren; two step-daughters, Nonielee Gordon, Huges Springs and Marcell Windham of Center and one step-son, Raymond Risinger of Denver, Colorado.
Pallbearers were Doyce Strickland, Doyle Johnson, Lloyd Gordon, Buck Gordon, Aaron B. Gordon and Laurie Windham.
Family Members
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William Albert Pate
1895–1978
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Vernice Alta Pate
1899–1981
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Otis Pate
1901–1987
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J. A. Pate
1902–1902
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Artis Pate
1903–1989
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Auva Pate
1905–1905
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Norma Lee Pate Wilson
1907–1993
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Bevie Odell Pate
1909–2007
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James Elvie Pate
1910–1944
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Cealsie Pate
1913 – unknown
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Robert Rushing Pate
1914–1983
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Luderice Aubrey Pate
1920–2012
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