Submitted by Melva L Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
October 29, 1984 - Monday, pg A4
DUELLA M. TATE
Prophetstown: - Mrs. Duella M. Tate, Prophetstown, died Saturday evening at the home of her sister, Mrs. Lyle Frank, rural Tampico.
Private services were held on Monday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the Gardner Chapel, Prophetstown, with the Rev. Bruce Janes, Pastor of the United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery, Prophetstown.
Duella Tate was born in Henry County, the daughter of Roy and Matilda Houch Covell and educated in Hooppole Schools. She was united in marriage to Harry Tate of Mt. Vernon. They lived in Hooppole a few years prior to moving to Mt. Vernon. He preceded her in death in 1977. She had resided in Prophetstown the past two years.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Dean (Evelyn) Sibbel, Sterling, and Mrs. Lyle (Helen) Frank, Tampico; one brother, Harold Covell, Morrison.
Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, one son and one sister.
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