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Born: May 1, 1946, Coleman, Texas Died: August 10, 1997, Temple, Texas Buried: Coleman Cemetery, Coleman, Texas Cause of Death: Heart Attack
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Nancy "New" Thate, 51 Nancy "New" Thate, age 51, of Burkett, died Sunday morning, August 10, 1997, in a Temple hospital. Services were held Tuesday, August 12th, at 2:00 p. m. in the Concho Baptist Church in Coleman with Rev. Sam Tomlinson and Dr. Charles Sheffield officiating. Burial followed in the Coleman Cemetery under the direction of Heartland Funeral Home of Early. Mrs. Thate was born May 1, 1946 in Coleman to the late Foy C. and Velma Barker Knowles. She was a lifetime resident of Coleman where she attended school. Mrs. Thate worked as bookkeeper with the Central Texas Opportunities in Coleman and was a member of the Worship Center of Brownwood. Mrs. Thate was preceded in death by her parents, one infant son, one brother, and one sister. Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Thate of Burkett; one son and daughter-in-law, Chuck and Sarah New of Coleman; four grand-children, Chrystal, Joshua, Tamara, and James New, all of Coleman; and three sisters, Barbara Gillis and Lena Wallis of Coleman, and Louise Newsom of Maryneal. (The Coleman Chronicle and Democrat – Voice, Coleman, Texas, August 14, 1997.)
"Nancy was born in 1946 and began school with the class of 1964. She didn't like academics and decided to marry when she was 15. She dropped out of school then and married a man by the name of New. She later had a baby and it died. Then later, her husband died. I think she made quite a mess of her life for a while, but then she married Kenneth Thate, who later became a Christian and their lives changed dramatically. She was on a trip to San Antonio with a stop on the way back in Temple. They were staying across the street from Scott and White when she had a heart attack and died. She couldn't be revived, even though the medics were there quickly. It was found that she had a congenital defect in the back of her heart." (From personal knowledge of Louella (Slimp) Knowles Boyd, Nancy's sister-in-law, February 2001.) |
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