Calhoun-Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....PATE SR., GEOFFREY May 23, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR wyliesheppard@yahoo.com May 27, 2011, 1:21 pm CORDELE DISPATCH A GRAVESIDE SERVICE FOR GEOFFERY PATE SR. OF ARABI WAS HELD AT 4 PM WEDNESDAY,MAY 25,2011 AT ARABI CEMETARY. REV. RAY BURNETTE CONDUCTED THE SEVICE .PALLBEARERS WERE GEOFFERY PATE III, STEVIE PURVIS, DAVID PURVIS,RICKY PATE JR. ,KYLE ODOM, AND KEVIN ODOM. GREAT-GRANDSONS SERVED AS HONORARY PALLBEARERS. MR.PATE,85,PASSED AWAY MONDAY MAY 23,2011 AT HIS RESIDENCE SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY. HE WAS BORN IN CALHOUN COUNTY AND WAS THE SON OF THE LATE ALVA LEE AND MARY ELVA BULLARD PATE. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE LOUISE MUSSLEWHITE PATE, TWO SONS WILLIAM JOHN PATE AND GEOFFERY PATE JR. AND A BROTHER, LORAN LEE PATE. MR.PATE WAS A UNITED STATES NAVY VETERAN WW II AND A RETIRED TRUCK DRIVER. SURVIVING HIM ARE FOUR CHILDREN,SHIRLY BURKE OF CALLAHAN,RICKY PATE SR. AND SANDRA ODOM AND HER HUSBAND JIMMY,ALL OF ARABI, AND ROY PATE AND HIS WIFE LYNN OF PITTS; TWO DAUGHTERS IN LAW ,ELAINE PATE OF ARABI AND NANCY PATE OF JACKSONVILLE,FLA.,A BROTHER HAROLD PATE OF BRUNSWICK; 15 GRANDCHILDREN;25 GREAT GRAND CHILDREN;AND 8 GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. Additional Comments: ONE OF OUR WW II VETERANS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/calhoun/obits/p/patesr13314ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb