Earline Hopkins Tate

TATE-Earline Hopkins Tate, This was the anniversary of the passing of Pasadena's first Black & minority political canidate, Mrs. Earline Hopkins Tate. Mrs.Tate passed away in her home on Armada Drive on this date. Mrs. Earline Tate was born in San Antonio Texas, Feburary 1,1921 to Otto and Emma Hopkins. At the age of three Earline and her family resided in Santa Barbara California. She attended Elementary, Junior & Senior High Schools in Santa Barbara and graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara with a degree in Sociology. She immediately entered and graduated from the University of Southern California with her Masters in Social Work (MSW). Mrs. Tate was a Golden Soror and took great pride in being a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. In the 1960s she was the first African American to run for the Pasadena Board of Educ ation as a Trustee, under the philosophy "to inspire Black youth as they attempt to search and establish their own identity and ideals". Earline was employed as Psychiatric Social Worker by the State Dept. of Mental Health of L.A. Earline was formally married to Wilbur B. Tate and from that union, she had two devoted children, Wilbur and Lenore Tate. Earline enjoyed entertaining. Over 40 years, she hosted a New Year's Day Open House at her Pasadena home and invited friends and family and to summer/fall g atherings at her family ranch in the Ojai valley. She's preceded in death by her parents Mr. & Mrs. Otto & Emma Hopkins and sister Margaret Thomas. She leaves behind her daughter Dr. Lenore Tate, son Wilbur H. Tate, granddaughter Monet Cook, daughter-in-Law, Gale Parker Tate and niece, Antointte Thomas.