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Charles Edward Tate.

Charles Edward Tate died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, at his home. He was 65.

A native of Enterprise, Ala., Mr. Tate lived in Alabama and Florida for a number of years and had been a Vicksburg resident for the past 17 years. He was a truck driver and was of the Baptist faith.

He was preceded in death by a son, Charles Anthony Tate.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Kappler Tate of Vicksburg; one son, Stephen Tate of Vicksburg; two daughters, Katherine Terrell of Vicksburg and Elizabeth Lynn Holt of Florida; two sisters, Frances Tomlin of Ozark, Ala., and Mary Virginia Snell of Palatka, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Glenwood Funeral Home with the Revs. Michael Fields and Ruth Pugh officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 until 8 tonight at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Stephen Tate, Danny Hearn, Chuck Kappler, James Wilson, Kerry Wagner and Larry James.

Col. Sidney Glynn Tucker.

Retired Col. Sidney G. &#8220Sid” Tucker died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, in Vicksburg, Miss. He was 78.

Col. Tucker was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg and a graduate of St. Aloysius High School. A &#8220Brothers of the Sacred Heart Boy,” he was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church where he served as altar boy, Eucharistic Minister, usher, and offertory counter. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radio operator and crewmember assigned to a PBY, Catalina flying amphibious boat. Upon discharge from the Navy in 1947, he joined the Naval Reserve unit in September 1949. He attended Mississippi State University, where he received a civil engineering degree. He was commissioned 2OLT in May 1951, in the Air Force Ready Reserve and served as civil engineer, Air Installations and Research and Development Staff Officer assigned to Strategic Air Command and the Research and Development Command until June 1960. He transferred to the Army Reserve and was assigned to the 475 Military Intelligence Detachment. He assumed command of the 475 on Feb. 17,1969, and was promoted to LTC on June 27, 1969. During his tenure as commander, the detachment received the U.S. Army Superior Unit Citation for seven consecutive years. During February 1975, he was selected for assignment to the Second Maneuver Training Command as colonel, Chief Engineer Section. With this command, he served as deputy commander, director of test exercises, Principal Evaluator Headquarters, and for two detachments located at Atlanta and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was selected group commander, 40th Ordnance Group, Jackson, Miss., in March 1978. As group commander he was responsible for the administration and training of 23 troop units in the state of Mississippi and approximately 2,200 personnel. At the time he retired in June 1981, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Col. Tucker’s service with the armed services spanned a total of 40 years.

Col. Tucker is survived by his wife, Patricia Collins Tucker; three sons, Patrick G. Tucker of Clinton, Michael R. Tucker of Dallas and Thomas L. Tucker of Jackson; three daughters, Sydney A. Gattis of Madison, Rose A. McWilliams of Pleasant Point, New Zealand, and Tracy M. Patterson of Edwards; nine grandchildren, Daniel, Andrea, and Christina Tucker, Lacey and Madison Gattis, Michael Sidney and Ashley Ann Tucker, and Matthew and Natalie Patterson; and a brother James R. Tucker of White Settlement, Texas.

A funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Catholic Church with the Rev. P.J. Curley officiating. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fisher Funeral Home. Rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Memorials may be made to St. Paul Catholic Church or to Vicksburg Catholic School.

Honorary pallbearers will be retired Col. Newell Murphy, Col. Albert Bush, Col. James Robinson, CSM Thomas G. Freeny, William Grace, Jack Geary, William Brabston, Bryan W. Brabston Jr., William P. Brabston Jr., Hal Waller, Jack Tohill, Michael Lee and The St. Aloysius Class of 1945.