Private funeral services will be on Monday June 1, 2020 for Mrs. Barbara Pate Schwartz, age 84, of Southside, who passed away on May 29, 2020. Burial will be at Crestwood Cemetery. Crestwood Funeral Home is in charge.

She was a 1954 graduate of Emma Sansom High School. Barbara was married to her sweetheart Howard for 60 years. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and aunt. She was a Christian and long-standing member of Rainbow City United Methodist Church, where she served in many ways such as singing in the choir for 50 years. She also was a quilter at the church for decades. She loved her church and her dear friends from there.

Mrs. Schwartz is preceded in death by her husband Howard Schwartz; mother Bessie Pate; father Bud Pate; sister, Pauline Reavis; and brothers Denson Pate and Ausby Pate.

She is survived by her daughters, Karen Daniell(David) and Lisa Holliday; grandchildren Anthony Daniell(Marjorie), Ashley Taylor(Nathan), Andrea Owens(Justin), Tiffany Wagner(Cavan), and Timothy Holliday(Vanessa); and great grandchildren, Kate, David, Claire, Laura, Boris, Oreck, Ellie, Nora, Jack, Thora, and Avy.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rainbow City United Methodist Church.

The family would like to issue a special thanks to Southern Care New Beacon Hospice and Dr. Etoboga with the Kidney Medical Clinic.

The family will announce a memorial service at a later date.