Obit: Tate, Caroline Mae (1937 - 2017)

Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Burrier, Cole, Emmert, Koziol, Lebal, McFarland, Oliver, Oosting, Piper, Pooler, Tate, Toot, Willoughby

----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 1/09/2017

Tate, Caroline Mae (Pooler) (29 MAY 1937 - 3 JAN 2017)

Caroline Mae Tate, 79, formerly of Gilman, died on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at Ladysmith Care and Rehab.

She was born on May 29, 1937 to the late Bryan E. and Nellie Mae (Cole) Pooler. Caroline married Thomas Tate, Sr. on Jan. 1, 1955 in Plattsburg, Mo. The couple lived there most of their married life where Caroline worked as a nurses aid and was an active homemaker.

She is survived by her children, Nellie (Leo) Lebal and Thomas Tate, Jr. both of Ladysmith, Cindy Burrier of Medford and Bobbi (Chris) Koziol of Gilman; seven grandsons; three granddaughters; three great-grandsons; three great-granddaughters; seven sisters, Doris McFarland, Margo Emmert, Jane Oliver, Naomi Oosting, Pamela Willoughby, Tanya Pooler and Shirley Piper; and one brother, Bryan D. Pooler.

Caroline is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Thomas, Sr. (2002); a brother, Frank Pooler and sister, Jean Toot.

A private family service will be held with burial of cremains in the spring in the Meadowbrook Cemetery in Gilman.