Bronnie Pate

Bronnie Addison Pate, 81, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at Memorial Hospital. The funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 9, 2008 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Leon VanLandingham officiating. Interment will follow at Bellview Cemetery near Colquitt, GA with Ben Rich, Lester Brown, Roy Brown, Randall Williams, Kenny Kirkland and Kem Dollar serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends Wednesday, October 8, 2008 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mrs. Pate was born September 17, 1927 in Colquitt, GA, the daughter of William Addison and Ethel Haire Addison. She was a homemaker and a member of Independent Street Church of God. She was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Bruton Pate and her daughter, Billie Ann Widner. Survivors include three daughters, Janell P. Williams and Janice Pate of Bainbridge, GA and Alice Faye Widner of Colquitt, GA; her brother, Paul Addison of Quitman, GA; four sisters, Inez Mock of Thomasville, GA, Ellen Kelly, Dale Brown and Geneva Dollar all of Bainbridge, GA; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.