Mrs. Betty Lou Hawks Tate

Mrs. Betty Lou Hawks Tate age 74 of 2737 Wards Gap Road, Ararat, VA wife of Mr. Bobby Ray Tate passed away Monday, August 19, 2013 at Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home. She was born April 2, 1939 in Carroll County, VA to the late Benjamin "Benny" and Oleta Dickerson Hawks. She was retired f rom Brown Wooten Hosiery Company and was a member of Westview Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband of 55 years, Bobby Ray Tate of the home three daughters and two sons-in-laws, Gwen and Robert Schoenthal, Cana, VA, Michele and Leonard Goad, Cana, VA, Myra Tate and fiancé, Sam Shepard, Ararat, VA, two grandchildren, Stephanie Goad, Pulaski, VA and Courtney Wyrick, Ararat, VA and a brother and sister-in-law, Wade and Ruth Hawks, Cana, VA. Funeral services will be held 4:00 pm Thursday, August 22, 2013 at Westview Baptist Church conducted by Brother Ray Fleming and Rev. Darren Slate. Burial will follow in the Hawks Family Cemetery. The family will receive friends 2:30 pm Thursday until time of the service at Westview Baptist Church Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home, 945 Zephyr Road, Dobson, NC 27017.
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