Pat Vandiver

July 8, 1933 - July 17, 2017

Funeral services for Pat Vandiver, age 84, of Tyler, Texas are scheduled for 10:30 A.M. Friday, July 21, 2017 in the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Tim Roberts officiating. Private burial to follow in the Lindale City Cemetery with services under the direction of Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale. Pat died July 17, 2017 at the Hospice of East Texas in Tyler. She was born in Hollis, Oklahoma on July 8, 1933 to the late Herbert and Ellera “Billi” (Spratling) Loving and was formerly of Lindale before moving to Tyler. Pat graduated from Lindale High School and moved on to graduate from Tyler Junior College’s business program. She retired after 25 years working as a secretary for American General Life Insurance Company. Following that retirement, Pat worked another 10 years as a typist for Texas Insurance Facilities. Pat was a member of the Green Acres Baptist Church and her pride and joy was being a grandmother. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 ½ years, Bob Vandiver in 2007; brother, Harold Loving; sister, Jeannine Harvey; and step-father, Newt Frost. Pat is survived by her son, Kuy Vandiver of Tyler, Texas and grandsons, Nicholas James Vandiver and John Carlton Vandiver, both of Tyler, Texas. Serving as pallbearers will be Mike Lee, Jace Barbin, Tom Nourse, Mitch Brown, Robert Brown, Allen Preddy, Chance Watson and Mark Magee. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Bone, Bob Kueck, Bill Gibson, Larry Barbin, Milton Hopson and Harold Kniffen. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M. Thursday evening at the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of East Texas Homeplace, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75701.