Brenda Kay Roshto was born Brenda Kay York in Silsbee, Texas in 1947 to Robert and Louise York. Their ancestors were among the first American settlers of the Big Thicket, with roots going back at least to the 1830s. Her early life was spent in Honey Island, where her father worked for Kirby Lumber. At the age of five, the family moved to Vidor, where she graduated high school in 1965. She married Joseph David Pate of Beaumont in 1969, with whom she had her only two children, Jody (aka JD) and Mark Pate. She later married Irvin Roshto of Alexandria, Louisiana, and remained with him until his death in 2017. She worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in her younger years, and at Anesthesia Associates and Hardin Jefferson Elementary School later in life. She retired to Sour Lake in 2018. A member at First Baptist of Sour Lake, Brenda was a devout Christian throughout her long life. She enjoyed traveling and reading, devouring both highways and books with enthusiasm. She was fascinated with the Civil War and visited many battlefields including Gettysburg. She had recently started reading through the great Victorian novels. As you read this, she is sitting down to dinner with her mama and daddy and her beloved younger brother Doug in a cabin by a river that looks suspiciously like Village Creek, where they have been preparing a place for her. She is survived by her sons Joseph David Pate, Jr. and wife Carla Rae Pate, Mark Allen Pate and wife Sabrina Breaux; nephew Robert (Robie) Charles York and wife Dana Dale York and Robie’s son Charles Walker York; nephew Chad York and niece Tara Zyp; grandchildren Haley Breaux, Britney Cameron, and Kirsty Hughes; first cousins Jerry Bean and Jackie Langston; and many great grandchildren.
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