Renae Ellen Wingate 1974-2012

WINGATE BERGER SMITH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/9/2012 at 11:23:21

Sioux City Journal
July 27, 2012

Renae E. Wingate, 38, of Sioux City, died Sunday, July 22, 2012, at a Sioux City Hospital.

Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City, with the Rev. David Miller officiating. Burial will be in Taylor Cemetery, rural Homer, Neb. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the family present at 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., with Ronald Berger officiating, at Becker-Hunt Funeral Home in South Sioux City.

Renae Ellen Wingate was born Jan. 16, 1974, in Pender, Neb., the daughter of Douglas E. and Judith A. (Berger) Smith. She graduated from South Sioux City High School and attended West Texas State College. She married Henry L. Wingate on Sept. 5, 1998, in Sioux City.

She was a member of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City.

Survivors include her husband, Henry; a son, Samuel Henry Wingate at home; four sisters, Dawn Hays, Shari and her husband, Rick Juarez, and Janet Reynolds and her companion, Luther King, all of Sioux City, and Virginia and her husband, Mark Moody, of Lewisville, Texas; three brothers, Kevin and his wife, Jan Smith, Leslie and his wife, Kyong Smith, and Mark Smith, all of Sioux City; her companion Chihuahua, “Dolly”; and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her maternal and paternal grandparents; and two sisters, Kari and Anna.