Marzell E. Choate, 87, a long-time resident of Irving, Texas, died Friday, March 1, 2013 in Irving. Born November 10, 1925 in Hunt County, Texas, she was the daughter of Louis Arthur Vandiver and Lillie May Farmer Vandiver. She grew up on a farm in Dallas County, at the present site of Eastfield College in Mesquite. She graduated from Mesquite High School. On November 10, 1947, she married Odes J. Choate at the Irving Church of Christ. She was a PBX operator for both Irving Community Hospital and for Saint Paul Hospital in Dallas . She has lived in Irving most of her married life on DeWitt Street. She was a member of Westside Church of Christ in Irving for over 50 years. Preceded in death by her parents and a brother, J. T. Vandiver, she is survived by her husband Odes J. Choate of Irving; two sons, Odes Lee Choate and wife Martha of North Carolina and Michael R. Choate and wife Sherry of Irving; two sisters, Helen Lyon of Garland, and Margaret Ann Sessions of Richardson; a brother Donnie Vandiver of Ennis; five grandchildren, Matthew Choate, Beth Beasley, Odes Eugene Choate, Grayson Choate, and Aurora Johnson; and several great grandchildren. The funeral will be 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at Donnellys Colonial Funeral Home Chapel, 606 W. Airport Freeway in Irving. Mark Roberts will officiate. Entombment will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at Restland Cemetery in Dallas.