DELLA ESTELLE RICHARDSON PATE
Funeral services for Della Estelle Richardson Pate, 71, of Silsbee will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 30, 2005 at Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee with interment at Center Groves Cemetery near Atlanta, TX at 4 p.m. that afternoon. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Pate died June 26, 2005 at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
She was born in Atlanta, TX. and lived in the Shreveport, Bossier City, LA. area for many years. She graduated from Linden High School and was a longtime employee of Continental Trailways Bus Lines in Shreveport. Mrs. Pate was a born again Christian and touched many lives.
Survivors include daughter, Beverly Gana and husband Doug of Silsbee; sisters, Jo Allen and Ruth Taffi both of Bossier City, LA.; brothers, Robert Richardson of Warrior, AL. and Jerry Richardson of Atlanta, TX; granddaughters, Della Luce and Melinda Barnhill; great grandchildren, Andy Strisko, Travis Barnhill, Todd Reeder and Dakota Luce.
