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- The following obituary provided by the Homer Historical Society:
Champaign News-Gazette August 1, 1937, p2
Mrs. Ray Tate, St. Joe, dies; Rites Monday
St. Joseph, July 31, --(BSC)--Mrs. Purcell Tate, 32, who resided three miles south of here, died at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Burnham hospital., Champaign, where she had been a patient for the past five weeks. Death was attributed to complications attending childbirth.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon from the local Christian church by Dean W. R. Sperry. Burial will be in Mt. Olive cemetery at Mayview with Jeanes funeral services in charge.
The deceased was born November 12, 1904, near Ogden, daughter of John and Nellie Freeman Hiser, and was united in marriage with Ray Tate of Kell about 10 years ago. She is survived by her husband, one son, Donald Ray, and the daughter born last Monday; her parents, three brothers, X Chester, Glen, and Jimmie; and one sister Bonita.
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