William C. Pate ’77

William died peacefully June 4, 2018, at Prestige Centre in Mount Pleasant, Mich.

He was born Oct. 30, 1950, in Denver. William graduated from Princeton before earning a master’s degree in art from the University of Massachusetts.

He was a computer systems and software engineer. He was always very creative and mechanically inclined. He enjoyed painting, sculpting, reading, cooking, and watching movies. He also had a passion for walking, jazz music, and sci-fi. He loved to watch fireworks and animals of all kinds.

William is survived by his significant other of 21 years, Marie-Elaina Larabee; children Ian Milligan-Pate and his wife, Katila, Zachary Milligan-Pate, and Kelly Larabee; grandsons Sincere Milligan-Pate and Kieryn Milligan-Pate; sisters Louise and her husband, Ernst, Meredith and her husband, Mike, Katy and her husband, Steve, and Nancy Pate-Laird; and his former wife, Deborah Milligan.