Danville Commercial News Oct. 3, 1955
*Mrs. Pate, 74, Succumbs
Mrs. Daisy Ann Pate, 74, of 212 1/2 Bryan Ave., died at 8 a.m. Sunday (Oct. 2, 1955) in St. Elizabeth Hospital, where she had been a patient since Sept. 19. She had been in failing health two years.
Born in LaMar, Mo., Jan. 30, 1881, daughter of Albert and Eveline Fackler, Mrs. Pate was reared and educated in Tolono. She was married at Champaign to Joseph Fisher Richards, who died in 1918. In 1931 she married William Henry Pate, who preceded her in death in 1934.
Surviving are two sons, James Richards of Lexington, Ky., and Joseph Richards of Danville; a daughter, Mrs. Nellie Estelle King of Phoenix, Ariz.; nine grandchildren; a brother, O. J. Fackler of Pesotum, and a sister, Mrs. Eva Tibbs of Decatur.
The body is at the Pape Memorial Home where services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Thomas Oliver will officate, with burial in Songer Cemetery.
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