Louise Tate McNabb

A former homemaker and a retired LPN with Baton Rouge General Medical Center and LSU Earl K. Long Medical Center (labor and delivery), she died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at her home in Baton Rouge after a long battle with lupus and Sjorensen's syndrome. She was 81, a native of Tickfaw and a resident of Baton Rouge since 1953. Visitation at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., on Saturday, May 8, from 9 a.m. until service at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Glen Miers, of Zoar Baptist Church. Graveside service at Tangipahoa Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. She is survived by two daughters, Linda McNabb Shaffer, of Baton Rouge and St. Francisville, and Phylis McNabb Richmond, of Amite; a son-in-law, Harrison Shaffer Jr.; six grandsons, Charley and wife Michelle Richmond, of Denham Springs, Randall Richmond, of Hammond, Shawn and wife Kristie Shaffer, of Covington, and Franklin, Stirling-Alexander and Christopher Shaffer; great-granddaughter, Savannah Richmond, of Denham Springs; an expected great-grandson, Jackson Richmond, scheduled to be born May 10; stepgreat-granddaughter, Victoria Richmond, of Dothan, Ala.; sister, Irene Stewart, of Albany; and brother, the Rev. Jesse Tate, of Hammond. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Frank McNabb; parents, William Thomas Tate and Sarah Jane Blount Tate; and siblings, Julia Tate, Ouida Bankston, Ella Carrol, Johnnie Hutchinson, Eula Nails and Nancy Bankston. Pallbearers will be her six grandsons. She was a member of Zoar Baptist Church.