Edith Pate Luke, 80, of Wilcox County died Saturday, November 3, 2012, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia.
Graveside services will be at 4:30 P.M. Sunday, November 4, at Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Ben Hill County with the Rev. Fred Eister officiating. There will be no visitation.
Mrs. Luke was born September 17, 1932 in Ben Hill County to the late Henry and Vita Pearl Miller Pate. A 1949 graduate of Fitzgerald High School, she was a homemaker and farm manager. She was a former member of the Home Demonstration Club, a substitute teacher for Irwin Academy, Justice of the Peace of the Sibbie Voting Precinct and a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church.
She is survived by her children: Celia Luke Ash, Andy & Susan Luke, Donnie R. & Jenny Luke and Edith Elizabeth “Beth” Luke, all of Ben Hill County and Tommie Luke Clark of Wilcox County; grandchildren: Audrey Luke-Morgan & Craig Morgan, Travis Luke, Luke Anthony Frazier, Caleb Ash, Sam Ash, Amanda Luke & Chris Griffin and Becky Luke & Eric Griffin; 8 great grandchildren. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Louise Luke.