Lydia Tate
Marriages
Jack Tate - August 20, 1949
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7B - April 6, 2013
Lydia Tate died April 5, 2013, at Mantey Heights Care Center at
the age of 101.
Lydia Tilula Tate was born May 13, 1911, in Eufaula, OK to William
Andrew and Evelyn Raburne Jackson. She lived in Oklahoma
and Arkansas and graduated from high school in Corsicana, Texas.
Lydia worked in California and Utah where she was a fine operator
and supervisor in the business of making canvas items.
Lydia moved to Grand Junction in 1948, and married the love of
her life, Jack Tate, on August 20, 1949.
Jack and Lydia owned and operated Canvas Products Co. for 17
years, retiring in 1982. They liked to travel in Colorado, Utah , and
Nevada, and to visit family in Wyoming.
Lydia enjoyed reading and photography and was particularly fond
of her cats. She was thankful for the help of her dear friends, Paula
Owen Wehner, and Jim and Martha Younger.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jack; two sisters,
and one brother. She is survived by her nieces and nephews,
Charlotte and Maron Davis; Gary Hearne; Cheryl and Vince Bath,
and Kim and Carol Hearne, all of Laramie, WY; Jim and Peggy
Hearne, and Harriet Yeager of Cheyenne, WY; Marge and Bob
Rackham of Corvallis, OR, and Terry and Pam Hearne of Rochester,
NY.
Arrangements are under the direction of Martin Mortuary. Services
will be Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
