Eva Pate Zweifel

Our beloved heard the Lord’s “well done ….. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the earth” on Sunday, March 15, 2015. She lived, loved and worked harder than the average woman. The endless memories she created as a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives,

Visitation for Eva is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18th from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Memorial Funeral Chapel in Bryan. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Thursday, March 19th at the funeral home with Reverend Daniel Bramlett officiating. Burial will follow in the Wheelock Cemetery in Wheelock, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Osteoporosis Foundation.

Eva Pate Zweifel was born March 14, 1922 in Leon County, Texas. She was a homemaker and retired after working 15 ½ years at the Registrar’s Office at Texas A&M University. Eva and her husband Edd were charter members of the Cottonwood Baptist Church where she worked for many years as a Sunday School teacher and youth leader. Currently, Eva is a member of the Faith Bible Church of Bryan. Eva enjoyed many hobbies such as quilting, sewing, knitting, arts and crafts, as well as vegetable and flower gardening. Eva shared her talents by teaching them to others. She also shared the fruits of her labor.

Eva is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 70 years, Edd Zweifel; her parents, Jeff and Margaret Wiggington Pate; and four sisters and two brothers. She is survived by one sister, Katheryn Salinas of Bainbridge Island, Washington; four children, Jane Abernathy of Hughes Springs, Texas, Edward Leroy Zweifel, Jr. and wife Linda of The Woodlands, Texas, Eva L. Zweifel-Mellema and husband John of Whidbey Island, Washington, and Larry Gene Zweifel and wife Vicki of Bryan, Texas; fourteen grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and countless nephews and nieces, as well as a host of other dear family and friends.

No family reunions “with all of us together”. No candy to buy, or flowers to send, or cards to select, or no Mother to talk with, just remembrances of talks once had – Thanks Mother! You were great!