Irene Pate Stafford
December 25, 1920 - February 02, 2010EUREKA
IRENE PATE STAFFORD
December 25, 1920 - February 2, 2010
Irene Pate Stafford, died Tuesday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center with her family by her side.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:00 PM from Mount Nelson Baptist Church, 206 W. Main Street, Eureka. Interment will follow at H. D. Lancaster Cemetery, 100 Lancaster Road, Pikeville, NC. The family will receive friends an hour prior to the service in the church fellowship hall.
Surviving is her daughter, Betty Stafford Corbett of Eureka, grandchildren, Nelson Stafford of Burgaw and Kelley Corbett Hill of Eureka. Great-grandchildren, Christopher Webb, Zachari Hill and Hunter Hill. Sister, Dorothy Pate Kirby (Mahlon) of Lucama, brothers, John Pate (Dot) of Goldsboro and Jarvis "Pete" Pate (Jean) of Kinston.
Mrs. Stafford was the daughter of the late Percie Lancaster Pate and the late Joseph Wheeler Pate. She was preceded in death by her husband Jesse Martin Stafford and her siblings Eva Pate Wooten, Martha Pate Weaver, Brunton Pate, Lloyd G. Pate. She was a member of Mount Nelson Baptist Church.
Memorial may be made to Mount Nelson Baptist Church, P O Box 3239, Eureka, NC 27830 or Kitty Askins Hospice Center, 107 Handley Park Court, Goldsboro, NC 27534
Arrangements are by Evergreen Memorial Service and condolences may be made through www.evergreenmemorialservice.com.