Obit of Pate, Shirley E. (p300) - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 23 Sep 2004 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lawton Constitutuion 6 Sep 2004 Shirley E. Pate Funeral Mass for Shirley E. Pate, 76, Lawton, will be said at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church with the Rev. James D.M. Stafford, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Pate died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004, at her home. Burial will be at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, under direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born Aug. 3, 1928, in Le Sueur, Minn., to Leo J. and Iona Hahn Sullivan. She married retired Sgt. James D. Pate on Sept. 3, 1955, in San Antonio. He died in December 1993. She taught school for three years and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force for another three years, until she started her family. She was a member of Frontier Chapel Center at Fort Sill and volunteered for many functions including church activities, the Robert E. Greiner School for the Handicapped and as a greeter at Reynolds Army Community Hospital. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, David J. and Becky Pate, Mason City, Iowa; a daughter, Barbara Bobo, Lawton; six grandchildren: Amanda Pate, James Pate, John and Joe Pate, Andrew Bobo and Stephanie Bobo; four great-grandchildren: Lance and Miranda Pate, Jordan Burns and Cassidy Jo Ann Bobo; two sisters: Martha Mandell and Mary Sullivan; and four brothers: Leo Sullivan, Herman Tessman, Arthur Sullivan and Eddie Sullivan. She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Sharon Pate; and a brother, Jimmy Sullivan. Sympathy cards may be sent to the family at www.beckerfuneral.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html