Washington Co., AR - Obituaries - Emily Ruth Pate

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Springdale News - (Benton & Washington Co's.)
January 22, 1986

Emily Ruth Pate, 93, of Rogers died Jan. 21 at St. Mary's-Rogers Memorial
Hospital.  She was born Feb. 9, 1892, in Talmage, Texas, the daughter of
Sanford and Emily Williams Gosnell.  She was the leader of the first
registered Girl Scout troop in Rogers, an active member of the Women's
Study Club and instrumental in the founding of the first public library in
Rogers.  She was a board member for the Rogers Hough Memorial Library for
several years, a member of the First Baptist Church where she had been
active in WMU and had lived in Rogers since 1929.  She was the widow of
Everett W. Pate, who was the former owner and operator of the ROGERS DAILY
NEWS.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary Ruth Garner and Nina Corley of
Rogers; a foster son, Joe Hudgens of Urbandale, Iowa; five grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Callison-Lough Funeral Home of
Rogers with the Rev. Dan J. Rowell officiating .  Interment will be in the
Benton County Memorial Park Cemetery.  Memorials may be made to the Rogers
Hough Memorial Library.

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