Death
Pace died in 1970 at the home of her daughter, Patty-Nell Pace Keen, in Burkesville, the seat of Cumberland County. Her son-in-law, M. C. "Doc" Keen, was a Cumberland County sheriff and judge. "Doc" Keen ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary held on May 29, 1973, for a seat in the Kentucky State Senate, having lost to Doug Moseley, a United Methodist minister then from Campbellsville. Pace is interred beside her husband at the former Pace-Allen Cemetery, now Grider Memorial Cemetery, in Waterview in Cumberland County at a site overlooking Pace Farms.
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