Ethalyn Tate

Ethalyn Tate died on Friday, January 26, 2018 in Kerrville, Texas.\r\n\r\nMary Ethalyn Reed Tate was born to Harriet Ethel Polley Reed and Hervie Edward Reed on Saturday, the 18th day of October, 1924 in Keller. She graduated from Fort Worth Technical High School in 1942 and married Lewis Inge Tate on his birthday, January 4, 1947 in Weatherford.\r\n\r\nShe and Lewis lived in Robstown and Corpus Christi during the late 1940's and early 1950's where he served families as a funeral director and she was in sales at Taylor Bros. Jewelers. They moved to Dallas in 1953 when he took a position with Weiland-Merritt Funeral Home and she became a personal shopper for Neiman Marcus.\r\n\r\nIn 1965 they began their 40 year career traveling as sales representatives for funeral home products. He joined the Caudle Engraving Company of Dallas and she opened her own company; Ethalyn Tate Funeral Supply.\r\n\r\nThey moved to Kerrville from Dallas in September of 1988 and retired from Bass-Mollett Publishers and her funeral supply company in December of 2005.\r\n\r\nShe and her husband were married 60 years and 1 month when he died on February 4, 2007. Her mother died in 1986; her father in 1989 and her sister, Betty J. Maloney in 1997.\r\n\r\nShe will lie in state at the funeral home from ten o'clock in the morning on Monday until eleven o'clock in the morning Tuesday.\r\n\r\nThe funeral service is to be conducted at 1 o'clock Tuesday, January 30, 2018 in the Kathleen C. Cailloux Memorial Mausoleum Chapel at the Garden of Memories Mausoleum and Cemetery, 3250 Fredericksburg Road in Kerrville, where Mr. Charles Gray is to officiate. Entombment beside her husband will follow.\r\n\r\nIn lieu of customary remembrances, contributions in Ethalyn's memory may be directed to the charity of one's choice. \r\n\r\n