Oscar Pate Succumbs

Danville Commercial News 8/26/1957

Oscar Lemial Pate, 72, of 4 W. 13th St., died at 6:30 a.m. Monday (Aug. 26, 1957) in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He had been ill several weeks and a patient four days at the hospital.
A former New York Central Railroad machinist, he retired in 1953. He was born in Tilton Sept. 12, 1884, son of William H. and Henrietta Smallcomb Pate, and had lived in the Tilton and South Danville communities all his life.
Mr. Pate was a member of Olive Branch Lodge 38, A.F.& A. M., Danville Consistory and Old Rails and New Ties.
Surviving are the wife, Bessie Neal Pate, whom he married in 1912; a son, Ralph O. Pate of Orleans, Ind.; two grandsons and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Spencer of Danville. A brother preceded him in death.
The body is at the Edmund & Dickson Funeral Home for services at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park.