Memorials › John Alvin Pate Sr
5 May 1897 – 10 Jun 1981
| Birth | 5 May 1897 |
| Death | 10 Jun 1981 |
| Cemetery | Pleasant Grove Cemetery Timpson , Shelby County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Virginia Wilson Bailey on 04 Jan 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42621145 |
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.
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