Freestone Co. TX - obits - The Fairfield Recorder newspaper - Thursday, January 26, 2006 Barbara J. (Cox) Tate Funeral services were held Sunday for Barbara Jane Tate, a former resident of Fairfield who died Friday at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. She was living in Dallas. Mrs. Tate was 84 years old and was born November 23, 1921 in Chehalis Washington. Services took place at Fairfield Cemetery where interment followed. Mrs. Tate is survived by her daughter Bette and husband Ted Lyon of Dallas; sons Mike Kelly and wife Monica of California and Jimmy Tate of Austin; four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents William and Gladys (Kirkwood) Cox and her husband James Tate. Arrangements were by Capps Memorial Chapel in Fairfield.