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December 4, 2010
James Wilburn Pate, 81, a native of Clay County, Miss., a long time resident of Bourg, La., and current resident of Fairview, Tenn., died Nov. 27, 2010.
Mr. Pate owned and operated a lumber sawmill and building supply business for many years and worked as an independent contractor and equipment operator until retiring back to his farm in Mississippi in 1993.
He is survived by his wife, Edna Ruth Rider Pate; daughter, Sherrie (David) Sehrt; and three grandchildren.
He is buried at Pine Bluff Cemetery in Mantee, Miss.
(Calvert Funeral Home in West Point, Miss.)Born in Lockport, July 26, 1925, to Annie Stagni Gautreaux and Sylvester E. Gautreaux Sr., he was the third of eight children. He grew up in Lockport, joined the Navy and served as a medic with the Marines during World War II in the Pacific theater, where he was in the fierce battle on Pelileu Island, then the thrust toward Okinawa on the Japanese mainland where he earned a Purple Heart. He returned home after the war and married Helen Marie Champagne, also of Lockport. A loyal, loving husband and father, he enjoyed fishing, poetry, classical music and western movies. His career spanned 38 years, the first nine years with the U.S. Postal Service. The remainder divided between life insurance sales and ending as sales director of AAA motor club in Oklahoma City.
Perpetual light now shines upon him.
