Gladys Tate

GLADYS TATE
GLADYS MARIE TATE OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI ON JUNE 9, 1926. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JAMES PAUL AND BINIE PEARL (DANIELS) SAALE. GLADYS DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2002 AT HER RESIDENCE IN MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-SIX YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND NINE DAYS.
GLADYS WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAMUEL HANLEY TATE ON OCTOBER 4, 1949 AT BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS AND TO THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN. SAMUEL PRECEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH ON APRIL 12, 1972.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY SONS, SAM TATE AND WIFE CARY OF ELMHURST, ILLINOIS, JAMES TATE AND WIFE DONNA OF BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI, CLARENCE TATE AND WIFE NINA OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI AND MARK TATE OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI, DAUGHTERS, THERESA JONES AND LATE HUSBAND PRESTON OF PARK HILLS, MISSOURI AND FRANCES RAWL AND HUSBAND GEORGE OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI, EIGHTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTY-NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND HUSBAND SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHERS, CLARENCE SAALE AND CHARLES SAALE, SISTERS, ELLEN HENNE AND MILDRED SCHULTE AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN.
SHE ENJOYED COOKING MEALS AND SPENDING TIME WITH HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. GLADYS WAS A KIND AND LOVING WOMAN WHO WILL BE LOVINGLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.
VISITATION WAS HELD 4:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2002 AND 9:00 AM TO 10:00 AM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2002 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED AT 10:00 AM ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2002 AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, SAM TATE, JAMES TATE, CLARENCE TATE, MARK TATE, GEORGE RAWL, JR. AND JERRY MARTINEZ.