Sylvia June Tate

SYLVIA JUNE MILLER TATE, age 89, passed away peacefully at home, in Missouri City, Texas, on Friday, September 30, 2011, after a long battle with COPD. Born in Grand Prairie, Texas, she was the second of four children of Hugh and Barbara Miller. June is survived by her husband, Nahum Allen Tate; son, Nahum Bryant Tate and his wife Jennifer of Raymond, WA; daughter, Junifer Tate Smith and her husband J. Mike of Sugar Land, TX; grandchildren, Carmen Leigh Aurand, Jason Tate, Matthew Allan Tate, Elaina Lynne Wilson, and Scott Smith; and five great-grandchildren. June graduated with honors from Forest Avenue High School in Oak Cliff, TX, and attended business school in Dallas. She was working in North American Aviation during World War II, when she met and married her soldier boy, and followed him and directed him for the next sixty-seven years. After the children left home, June worked for Crum Advertising in Beaumont, TX, and in later years she worked as a volunteer for the Grand Prairie Police Department in their Citizens on Patrol unit and the VALEA program. But her greatest achievement was in the art of “motherhood.” Although having borne only two children, she mothered and mentored a host of the vulnerable throughout her lifetime, sheltering dozens under her giant motherly wing. Never a needy did she pass; be they a lost puppy, wounded bird, or motherless child. June was filled with the Holy Spirit and saw The Son in all of His mighty creations. Her weary head now rests upon the shoulder of the Lord. A Memorial Celebration of her life will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, October 8, 2011, at The Settegast-Kopf Co. @ Sugar Creek,15015 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land (Williams Trace Exit), with the Rev. M. Eugene Vickrey, officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations in June’s memory may be made to The Wounded Warrior Project @www.woundedwarriorproject.org, or to New Century Hospice, One Sugar Creek Center Blvd., Suite 330, Sugar Land, TX 77478.