Orval K. Pate Obit

Danville Commercial News
Dec. 7, 1963

Orval K. Pate, 57, of 522 Sherman St., died at 3:15 p.m. Friday (Dec. 6, 1963) in St. Elizabeth Hospital where he had been a patient two days.
Mr. Pate had been in failing health for four years, and bedfast one week.
Born Nov. 4, 1906 at Catlin, he was the son of William W. and Ollie Mae Gritton Pate. He was married June 8, 1928 at Watseka to Daisy Mae Sherman, and she survives.
Other survivors include his mother, Mrs. William Pate of Catlin; three sons, Leo D. of Catlin, William G. at home, and Orval B. of Danville; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Goranson of Morton Grove, Ill.; three brothers, Donald Pate of Janesville, Wis., Dale and Henry Pate, both of Catlin; four sisters, Mrs. Ruth Farvit of Danville, Mrs. Betty Burton of Catlin, Mrs. Dorothy Hickman of Cissna Park, and Mrs. Marie Miller of Chicago; and eight grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his father and a son.
Following his marriage in 1928, Mr. Pate moved his family to Catlin where he lived until 1952.
Mr. Pate had worked for the old Bunsenville Coal Co., and for the past 17 years had been engaged in construction work.
His hobbies were collecting pencils and raising beagle hounds.
Mr. Pate was a former member of the Operating Engineers Local. He also held membership in the Illinois Sheriff's Association, Vermilion County Law Enforcement Association, Masonic Lodge 285 of Catlin, Danville Consistory, Gao Grotto, and Anzar Shrine of Springfield.
The body is at Pape Memorial Home where services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Dennis Fulton of Catlin will officiate, with burial  Oak Ridge Cemetery at Catlin.
Masonic Rites will be conducted at 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home by the Catlin lodge.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. Saturday and from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Sunday.