Mae Jewel Aldridge Pate archived  PATE Mae Jewel Aldridge Pate passed away on Wednesday, March 19, 2009 at the age of 66. She was the first black assistant director of nursing of a 1600 bed unit at Charity Hospital of New Orleans, LA. Beloved wife of Freddie Pate Sr. Mother of... More Published in The Times-Picayune on March 22, 2009