This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TATE, DUKE, MORREN, KIESER, STRATTON, CHRISTIAN, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/840 Message Board Post: >From a Hughes Co. newspaper, Oct. 25, 2001 Edwin Kenneth TATE Funeral services for Edwin Kenneth TATE were held Oct. 23 at Carson Baptist Church. He was born to C. A. TATE and Dorothy Ella DUKE and died Oct. 20 at Holdenville General Hospital at the age of 70. Mr. TATE was reared in Carson and attended Dustin schools. He was a supervisor for the Oklahoma State Highway Department in Hughes County before retirement. He was a member of the Holdenville Elks Lodge, enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping, playing cards, dominoes and horse racing. Mr. TATE married Mary MORREN on Dec. 6, 1976 in Atoka. He was preceded in death by his parents. Survivors include his wife, Mary, of the home in Holdenville; three children, Kenny TATE, Karen TATE and Kerry TATE; one grandson, James Patrick TATE of Oklahoma City; four step-grandchildren, Shelia KIESER and husband, Daniel, of Ada, Charlene STRATTON of Sulpher, Christopher CHRISTIAN of Ada and Charles CHRISTIAN, One brother, Pat TATE of Broken Arrow. Interment was at Carson Cemetery under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home of Holdenville.