Frances Marie Hunter Tate

December 5, 1930 ~ April 19, 2018

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Submitted by: T.D.

April 19, 2018 was the first day in heaven for Frances Marie Tate. Funeral services for Frances, 87, will be at 1:00 p.m. Monday, April 23rd, at 7th and Beech Church of Christ in Durant, Oklahoma. Layne Heitz will be officiating. Burial will be at The Highland Cemetery in Durant, Oklahoma.

Frances was a devout Christian woman. She went about caring for people in many ways, but most of these things were only known by her and the Lord. She did small things with great love. She loved her family with a fierce love that was shown to us daily. She graduated from Blue High School. She played basketball and earned many academic medals. Frances rode the Dinky, a small engine passenger train with one car to Durant to visit family and friends. She was married to her husband, Sidney, for 58 years. They met at a basketball game when he and his friends were there checking out the girls.

She is survived by her children, Kenneth and wife Charmaine of Bochito, Oklahoma, James and Karen of Durant, Oklahoma, Jerry and wife Peggy of Durant, Oklahoma, and Jeanne and husband Mark of Ardmore, Oklahoma. She is also survived by her sister Donnie Tucker of Springfield, Texas, her brother W.O. Hunter of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and many nieces and nephews. She had 8 grandkids, 14 great-grandkids, and 2 great-great-grandkids.

She was preceded in death by her mother Emily Mae Hunter, her father William Oliver Hunter, and her beloved husband Sidney David Tate.

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