Marlin E Mote

MARLIN E MOTE PASSED AWAY JULY 6, 2017. HE WAS BORN IN HIS PARENTS’ HOME IN WAXAHACHIE, TX ON JUNE 30, 1932, TO LILLIAN WOOD AND THOMAS ALLAN MOTE. THE FAMILY MOVED TO CORPUS CHRISTI IN 1942 AND HE GRADUATED FROM CORPUS CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL IN 1949. HE ATTENDED DEL MAR COLLEGE FOR ONE YEAR AND ENLISTED IN THE U S AIR FORCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE KOREAN WAR. HE SPENT NEARLY TWO YEARS IN THE U K AT RAF LAKENHEATH BEFORE RETURNING THE U S AND SERVING THE REMAINDER OF HIS ENLISTMENT AT BERGSTROM AFB, AUSTIN, TX AS AN INVESTIGATOR FOR THE AIR PROVOST MARSHAL. UPON HIS DISCHARGE HE RETURNED TO COLLEGE AND RECEIVED A BBA DEGREE AT TEXAS A & I IN 1955.

HE BEGAN A CAREER IN PUBLIC ACCOUNTING THAT WOULD LAST FIFTY YEARS. THE LAST 37 YEARS OF THAT CAREER FOUND HINM A PARTNER IN A HOUSTON CPA FIRM. HE HAD BEEN CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED FOR FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS.

HIS MILITARY SERVICE BEGAN AT AGE SEVENTEEN WHEN HE ENLISTED IN THE NAVY RESERVE. IT ENDED WHEN HE RETIRED AS A MAJOR GENERAL AND THE COMMANDING GENERAL OF TEXAS STATE GUARD. IN ADDITION TO HIS CIVILIAN EDUCATION, HE WAS A GRADUATE OF THE U S ARMY ADVANCED MILITARY POLICE OFFICER COURSE, ADVANCED INFANTRY OFFICER COURSE, AND THE U S ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF OFFICER COURSE.

A LIFE-LONG BAPTIST, HE WAS A MEMBER OF WESTBURY BAPTIST CHURCH AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. HE WAS A MEMBER OF TEMPLE LODGE #4 AF & AM, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, NATIONAL SOJOURNERS, AND ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND. HE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF TEXAS SOCIETY OF CPAs AND THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CPAs. HE WAS ALSO A LIFE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD ASSN. OF TEXAS AND THE AIR FORCE SECURITY FORCES ASSN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, HIS BELOVED WIFE OF NEARLY 47 YEARS, GLORIA JENELL WILLARD MOTE, AND A STEP-SON, WILLARD D. “SKIP” HARTMANN. HE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, M DAVID MOTE (PAM), A STEP-SON, MICHAEL D DARE, BY GRANDCHILDREN, NICOLE (CANNON), ALLANA (JOSHUA), MICHAEL DAVID, MICHELLE AND MELISSA AND BY FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS, DR. TOM MOTE, WARREN (BETTY) MOTE AND BY JENELL’S SISTER, JUANICE MASELES.

VISITATION WILL BE HELD ON JULY 13, 2017 AT EARTHMAN FUNERAL HOME AT 6 P.M. TO BE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY FUNERAL SERVICES AT 7 P.M. INTERMENT WILL BE AT HOUSTON NATIONAL CEMETERY THE FOLLOWING MORNING ON JULY 14, 2017 AT 9 A.M.