Mrs. W.M. Pate Dies Suddenly While Serving Breakfast, March 9, 1925

Mrs. W.M. Pate Dies Suddenly at Dunbar. . . End Came While She Was Serving Breakfast—Apparently Had Been in Her Usual Health—Funeral at Philadelphus

By W.H.M. Brown

Buie, March 7—The death of Mrs. W.M. Pate, which occurred at her home in Dunbar, S.C., Wednesday morning, was news received here with sorrow. Mrs. Pate apparently was in her usual health when the end came while she was serving breakfast. Mr. W.H. Adams, who lives here, just returned from the Pate home, where he had been to relieve Mr. Pate as operator while he was away attending the funeral of a sister, whose death occurred in Florida last week. Mr. Adams reports that Mrs. Pate was then in her usual health.

Funeral services were conducted at Philadelphus church Thursday evening. Friends will deeply sympathize with Mr. Pate in his bereavement.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, March 9, 1925

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