He was preceded in death by his parents, William Henry and Barbara Alice Jarman Pate.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, at McDaniel's Chapel Church with the Rev. Danny Taylor officiating. Interment will follow in the Pate Family Cemetery at his home. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday evening, at Garner Funeral Home and other times at the home of his brother Russell, at 517 Kingfield Road.

Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Diane Register Pate of the home; his daughter, Kimberly Pate Oates and husband, Jonathan, of Trenton; his sisters, Dora "Nell" Williams of Kinston and Eliza Pate Stroud of Deep Run; his brothers, Jackie Lee Jarman of Kinston and Russell Pate of Trenton; two grandsons, Paul and Joseph; a granddaughter, Taylor; and many special nieces, nephews and special friends, Michael and Evelyn Sheperd and Jimmy Sheperd.

Arrangements are by Garner Funeral Home, Kinston.

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