Jessie Bell Davis Pate
June 26, 1932 - March 6, 2010
Jessie Bell Davis Pate
Funeral Service for Jessie Pate, 77, of Lovington will be Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Gayle Sharp and Reverend Harry Pittam of First Baptist Church officiating, music and songs will be by Terry Bullard and Chris Stevens. Burial will follow at the Tatum Cemetery. Please come and share this time with us. Services are under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
She joined her Heavenly Father March 6, 2010 in Lovington, NM after having lived a fairly long and fruitful life.
She was born in Plesant Hill, NM to Fay and Alma Davis. She was the next to the youngest of eight children. She was raised around the Portales/Clovis area from the time she was an infant. She married Marlin Pate in 1953 in Portales, NM. From Portales they moved to Las Cruces, homesteaded, built a home and raised their two children. While raising Curtis and Becky, Jessie was a homemaker and the best mom ever. Her whole focus was on her family, sewing, singing, laughing, playing, always being there at home, and being dependable and most of all nurturing and loving. She almost made it fun to be home sick because of all her pampering. She was an active member of the Fairacres Baptist Church. She moved to Tatum in 1979. In Tatum she pursued her passion of being a musician by playing the guitar, violin and piano almost non stop. She enjoyed hosting musicals at her home. In 1998 she moved to Lovington Good Samaritan Center and got them to use their big coffee pot so all of her friends could come and play with her there too. She was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Lovington, NM.
Survivors include her daughter Elizabeth “Becky” Pate and her husband Donald, her son Curtis Avery Pate, her sister Nor-Alice Davis, grandchildren Tara D’Rey Pate Cole & husband Judd, Wade Reese & wife Amy, Sasha Nicole Villarreal & husband Matthew, Donald Gene Long, Jr., great grandchildren Dylan Reese, Elisa Deanna Aguilar, Anaya La Rey Villarreal and Matthew Hernandez, Jr. nieces and nephews Cleta Sharp & husband Gayle, JE Stone & wife Kathy, Rita Fisher & husband Leo, Guinn White & husband Paul, Ricky Smith & wife Debra, GA Gossett & wife Sherry, Gailin Gossett, Virgil Gossett & wife Shirley, Alma Ester Branum & husband Mike, James & Larry Holt, Roger & Gary Martin. Other family members on the Pate side that Jessie Loved and cared for are Lois Criswell, Fern Guye, Lonnie Pate, Lisa Pate & husband Pat, Wayne, Robert and Michelle; Bob, Roberta, Terry, Scooter & Shilynn Bullard, Bill & Mike Bosenbury, Melvin, Addie & Gail Paul, Kenneth & Lavern Chisum, Kim Guillium & Ricki Pate.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Marlin Pate – December 9, 2009, five sisters Georgia Stone, Gerene Martin, Dorthy Smith, Betty Gossett and Fern Holt, two brothers Burt Davis and Flavil Moore, brothers in law Slim Stone, Jess Martin, Dub Smith and Garland Gossett.
Our family gratefully acknowledges the genuine care from her doctors, Dr. Amar Bains and wife Ana, Dr. Ronald Monteverede, Nor-Lea General Hospital, David, Shannon, Karen, Alice and Dolores and all the staff at the Lovington Good Samaritan Society. All of Mom’s friends around New Mexico and Texas – you showed your love in your own special way. Thank you to Lois Toasta, you were there for mom many a time, Jane Armstrong for being supportive roommate at Lovington Good Samaritan. We would like to thank all the churches in Tatum and Lovington who worshipped and prayed with her and for her. Thank you Pastor Harry Pittam, First Baptist Church in Lovington for worshipping with mom. Thank you Mava for the dinner and compassion you showed our family.
A big thank you to Chris and Wanda Stevens and staff at Stevens Funeral Home. You helped us with details we did not even think about to complete the whole process so mom, Jessie Pate, could shine one more time. You showed us a lot of love and made us feel like family. Your service was so professional and complete.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
“Abraham Lincoln.”
God Bless you from the family of Jessie Pate.
Online registry can be accessed at www.stevensfuneral.com
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