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Dalton Pate
18 Sep 1911 – 15 Sep 2015
| Birth | 18 Sep 1911 |
| Death | 15 Sep 2015 |
| Cemetery | Mount Olive Cemetery Timpson , Shelby County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Virginia Wilson Bailey on 17 Sep 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152331128 |
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Funeral services for Mr. Dalton Pate, 103, of Timpson, TX, will be held at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, in Taylor Funeral Home Chapel, Timpson, TX, with Bro. Justin Coburn officiating. Interment to follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Timpson, TX (Silas) community. Visitation for family and friends will be at 1PM, Wednesday , September 16, 2015 at Taylor Funeral Home. Mr. Pate was born September 18, 1911, in Arcadia Community. Dalton was the son of the late Willie Bruce and Myrtie "Peace" Pate. Dalton was a simple man with no aspirations of fame or fortune. He lived his life by the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. He loved his family and he loved his Lord. His Bible was almost exclusively his reading material. He was born into farm life and never lost his love of planting and watching things grow. Anyone passing by his house in the spring would have seen him in his garden, well up into his late 90's, pushing his "idiot plow" or chopping that last sprig of grass. About the only thing that would get him out of the garden in the spring was an invite of "let's go fishing". Dalton loved to fish, it didn't matter if he caught a 5 lb bass or a hand size perch. In the fall you might see his truck on the side of some back road. He would be in the woods with his 22 Rifle, or his 16 gauge in later years, and his dog, hunting squirrels. He would have some mutt that someone gave him, or a stray that turned up at his house, it didn't matter. Dalton would have it treeing squirrels in short order. Dalton didn't kill for the sake of killing, he loved squirrel dumplings. Biscuits, dumplings, and just about anything sweet and he was "good to go". Dalton Pate is survived by: Sisters: LaVerne Pate Hughes Orine Pate Ingram Son: Robert Glyndon Pate, and wife, Helen of Timpson Grandchildren: Debra Pate Smith, and husband, Paul of Timpson Darryl Pate, and wife, Debra of Crystal Beach Donna Pate of Timpson 7 great-grandchildren 13 great-great-grandchildren Many relatives friends, and loved ones that will miss him greatly Dalton Pate is preceded in death by his parents, Willie Bruce and Myrtie Pate; his wife, LaVennie Darnell Pate; four brothers, Arvel, R.C. William, and Pershing Pate; and three sisters, LaMerle Monkres, Oleta Darnell, and Willie Day Green. Pallbearers are Chad Pate, Jacob Duke, Cody Bailey, Michael Smith, Andy Terry, and Bobby Yarborough. Honorary pallbears are Billy Magness, and George Duke.
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- R C Pate 1914–1986 FaG
- Oleta Pate Darnell 1916–1998 FaG
- Corp Pershing Pate 1918–1944 FaG
- Arvel Pate 1920–2009 FaG
- Willie Day Pate Green 1923–2002 FaG
- William Aden Pate 1925–1996 FaG
- Laverne Pate Pope 1929–2017 FaG
- LaMerle Cockerham Pate Monkres 1932–2014 FaG
- Orine Pate Ingram 1937–2021 FaG
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