UNICOI COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mrs. Lovena Garland Pate, 16 Jan 1926
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Mrs. Lovena Garland Pate

Mrs. Lovena Garland Pate died Saturday 16 January 1926. The funeral of Mrs.
Vina Pate, which was arranged to occur at 10 o'clock a. m. Tuesday, was
delayed a few hours, awaiting the arrival of a daughter and two sons from
Adrian, Mich. 

On Tuesday afternoon a great number of people gathered to pay their last 
respects to Mrs. Lovena Pate, who died Saturday evening in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
The services were conducted by Rev. A. C. Sherwood of Erwin, Tenn., after 
which the body was laid to rest in the Swingle cemetery by the side of her 
late husband, Nathan Pate, who preceded her to the grave some five years and 
her mother Susan Garland, who was one hundred and four and one-half years old 
at the time of her death about six years ago.

The flower-girls were: Mrs. A. D. Phillips, Misses Bertie Buchanan, Pearl and
Ruby and Opal Britt, Hazel Erwin, Louise McInturff, Louise Street, Jessie
Gauge and Kate and Florence Boothe. The pall-bearers were from the young men
of the town, Mr. Arthur Pate's friends. As the funeral procession passed down
the street, they paused in silence for about five minutes in front of Mrs.
Pate's old home. This mute tribute in remembrance of one who so loved and
cherished her home and all that pertained to its comfort, its beauty, its
duties and its scaredness was touching in the extreme, and it brought to mind
how faithful she was in all these relations. It is no tax of memory to recall
her ever watchful care of her aged mother and invalid husband for a number of
years before their deaths. Although frail herself at the time she never
relaxed her diligence day or night to look after their safety and comfort. We
do not hesitate in saying, we never saw such loyalty, such devotion, such
faithfulness in any one as she exhibited under these trying circumstances as a
daughter, a wife, a mother and a grandmother. And her helpfulness was not
confined to the home. She was kind to friends, neighbors, acquaintances and
strangers. It must be a fact that no one ever went to her home in blossom
time,  even to a tiny child, just large enough to grasp a flower in its tiny
fist, and came away without a nose gay. Her flower garden was a wonder and a
beauty never to be forgotten. How fitting the many and beautiful floral
offerings at her burial.

The deceased Lovena Garland, daughter of John and Susan Garland, was born and
reared in the Limestone Cove, was married in youth to Nathan Pate, and lived
her long and useful life in this vicinity. She lived for may years in Unicoi,
until the death of her husband. Since then she has lived part of the time
here, part in Adrian, Mich. and part in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the time of her
death she was making her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Sutphin in
Cincinnati.

On Friday last, the physicians, who were attending her in her illness,
advised an operation to remove a thyroid tumor which was obstructing her
breathing. This was offered as a mere chance of life. She was taken to the
Jewish hospital on Saturday where the operation was performed, and while it
afforded relief did not avail to prolong the life which was already spent and
she passed away Saturday evening.

The deceased was seventy-seven years old and was from her child-hood a member
of the Christian church. She is survived by two daughters. Mrs. Fuller Miller
of Adrian, Mich., Mrs. John Sutphin of Cincinnati, Ohio; four sons, Messers
Perry and John Pate, of Adrian, Mich; George of Johnson City; A. R. Pate of
Unicoi, and a great number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Mrs. George Pate and daughters are guest of Mrs. Sallie Boothe and family.
Messrs. Perry and John Pate and Mesdames Miller and Sutphin are seeing old
friends in Unicoi. They are here on account of the funeral of their mother,
Mrs. Vina Pate. They will take leave the  latter part of the week for their
respective homes. All of Mrs. Pate's children were here except Mr. George
Pate, who was in Florida and could not be reached in time.