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Submitted: 8/1/20 • Approved: 8/1/20 • Last Updated: 8/4/20 • R339031-G250491-S3
Jack Hudson
September 21, 1930-January 29, 1987
Mary Alice
April 2, 1932-July 17, 2020
In loving memory
*Obituary for Mary Alice
Graveside services for Mary Alice Cato, age 88, of San Antonio and formerly of Seminole, Texas, will be held Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at Gaines County Cemetery, with burial to follow. Dean Boyer will officiate, and all services are the direction of Boyer Funeral Home of Seminole. Social distancing is requested at the cemetery.
Mary Alice Bridges Cato was born in Denton, Texas on April 2, 1932 to C.A. and Elizabeth Mae Bridges, the fourth of five girls. She received her Teacher’s Certificate from the University of North Texas and moved to Seminole in 1953 to teach first grade. In 1956 she married Jack Cato, also a teacher in Seminole, at the First Presbyterian Church. She loved teaching her first graders but took a break in 1957 to start and raise her own family of five. She returned to teaching in 1969.
Mary and Jack moved to Copperas Cove, Texas in 1986 and both taught in nearby Killeen. Jack preceded Mary in death in 1987, but Mary continued to teach until 1997. She was a member of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Copperas Cove, which she loved, and she also sang in the choir there.
In retirement, Mary made a number of cross-country bus tours with fellow teachers; she liked to tell her family she had been to every state except Alaska. She was a big fan of ice cream, the Dallas Cowboys, and jigsaw puzzles. She enjoyed arts and crafts as well. She particularly loved singing birds and kept a very fine collection of porcelain birds.
Mary Alice Cato passed away July 17, 2020 at North East Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas due to complications from the COVID-19 virus. She is survived by her children, Miles Cato of Sunnyvale, California, Brent Cato of New York, New York, Nancy Cato of San Antonio, Texas, Neill Cato of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Bruce Cato and wife Sue of Round Rock, Texas; by two grandchildren, Tim and Andrew Cato; and by one sister, Jeanne Tebbetts.
The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, that you make a donation to your local hospital fund to support their care of COVID patients. www.boyerfuneralhome.net
Contributed on 8/1/20 by neldapat
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