The Bryan/College Station Eagle 

Minnie Pearl Pate
March 1, 1919 — July 31, 2000

CENTERVILLE — Services for Minnie Pearl Pate, 81, of Buffalo are set for 2 p.m.
Thursday at the Calvary Christian Center west of Oakwood on Hwy. 79.

The Rev. Jack Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Parker Cemetery in the
Flo community.

Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, with the family present from 6
to 8 p.m., at Walters Funeral Home in Centerville and from 11 a.m. to the time
of the services Thursday at the Calvary Christian Center.

Mrs. Pate died Monday in the Fairfield hospital.

She was born in Streetman, Texas, and was a homemaker. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, G.E. “Pete” Pate; and a son, Jerry
Dee Pate.

Survivors include four sons and three daughters-in-law, Douglas and Valerie
Pate, Nevlin Pate and Randy and Kaye Pate, all of Buffalo, and Leroy and Wanda
Pate of Athens, Texas; two daughters and sons-in-law, Minnie and Floyd Stanton
of Buffalo and Sue and Billy House of Tool, Texas; 13 grandchildren; and 14
great-grandchildren.