My husband's great aunt passed away yesterday morning in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She was 95 years old and a lovely lady. Irene Pate McGoodwin Mitchell was born on March 4, 1909 in Ardmore to the late Joseph Francis and Martha Irene (Barrington) Pate. She was the youngest of their 7 children. She graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and taught school in Ardmore for more than 40 years. She headed the audio-visual department and traveled around to many of the schools in the district. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Sunday school class, OEA, Business and Professional Women's Association, served as secretary-treasurer for AARP and was a Pink Lady hospital volunteer until she was about 90 years old. She taught driving to senior citizens into her 80s. She also traveled extensively. In her 90s she often told us that she had lived a good life and had traveled to every continent except Antarctica. She married her first husband Gordon McGoodwin on Nov. 24, 1934. He died Jan. 25, 1967. She and B.P. Mitchell were married in 1978 in Ardmore. He died in 1997. Although she had no biological children, she was a big influence on the lives of her nieces, nephews and their children, as well as two Mitchell step-children. Sharon Fitzpatrick