Services for Clyde A. Mote, of Emerald Bay, will be at 11:00am on the 4th day of December, 2015 at Emerald Bay Community Church with Dr. Darryle Dunks officiating. Private burial will be at Cathedral in the Pines under the direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home in Tyler.
Mr. Mote passed away on Wednesday, December 2, 2015.
He was born on February 12, 1926 near Vernon, Texas in Wilbarger County to Neven Mote and his wife Lona Mote, both of whom are deceased. He attended and graduated from Vernon High School in 1943 with honors.
He was a veteran of WWII and was sent to Europe where he served as a rifleman for Company A of the 276th Infantry of the 70th Division and participated in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Bronze Star and the combat infantryman badge. After the war, he was in the army of occupation as a Sgt. in Germany until 1946 when he returned to Texas and entered Baylor University in Waco and graduated with the degree of Juris Doctor in 1950.
Upon graduation, he went to Abilene and practiced law for several years with one E. S. Cummings in a partnership entitled "Cummings and Mote" where he met and married his first wonderful wife, Jean Henderson, who bore him 3 great children all of whom are still living and are named Terron Mote Hayes, Bruce Mote and Douglas Mote and he has many grandchildren as well as great grandchildren who survive him. He is also survived by a sister, Frances Hamm, of Vernon.
He went from Abilene to Lubbock and served as an assistant City Attorney of that city for several years and after leaving that job went back into private practice in Lubbock in a firm entitled "Napier and Mote" until 1959 when he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to become an attorney for Amoco Production Company. He was then transferred to Houston and continued with that company for 30 years during which time he was sent to New Orleans as Regional Attorney for Amoco from which he retired in 1989 and moved to Emerald Bay on Lake Palestine near Tyler where he resided until his death.
His first wife, Jean, passed away in 1998 and is buried in Cathedral in the Pines in Tyler and will now be joined by her husband. After the death of his first wife, Clyde later married his surviving wife, Roxann, with whom he continued to live for 17 great years in Emerald Bay until his death. He had 2 step children by his second wife who are Jill O'Neal of Southlake, Texas and Cindy Probst of West Lake in Austin.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75701.
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