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Willa Dean PIKE GATES

Lieb Cemetery
Hutchinson County,
Texas

Charles Emmett
November 3, 1920-April 7, 1989

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Willa Dean Pike
September 16, 1922-September 9, 2003

Married January 24, 1942
In God’s Care

*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary for Charles
BAYTOWN - Funeral services for Charles E. Gates, 68, were Saturday at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Roy Parker, officiating.

Burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Lieb Cemetery in Morse.

He was a native of Chilton, Texas, and retired from Exxon Refinery in Baytown. He was a deacon at the First Baptist Church in Baytown, member of DAV where he served as vice commander. He was a Mason and Shriner, and a World War II Air Force veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Willa Deane; two sisters, Lucille Mitchell of China Springs; and Jewel Garner of Hagerman, N.N. [sic]; brother and sister-in-laws Curtis and Jean Marable of Stinnett.

Arrangements were by Navarre-Lee Funeral Directors of Baytown.

(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, April 9, 1989)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Charles Emmett Gates
Date of Birth: 3 Nov 1920
Birth County: Falls
Certificate Number: 60449
Roll number: 1920_0005

Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Charles Gates
Death Date: 7 Apr 1989
Death County: Harris
Gender: Male

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Charles Emmett Gates
[Charles E Gates]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1920
Birth Place: Chilton Fall, Texas
Death Date: Apr 1989
Father: William H Gates
Mother: Minnie B Cooley
Notes: Jul 1938: Name listed as CHARLES EMMETT GATES; 15 May 1989: Name listed as CHARLES E GATES

*Obituary for Willa
STINNETT - Willa Deane Gates, 80, died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, in Spearman.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Lieb Cemetery, five miles north of Pringle. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.

Mrs. Gates was born in Pringle on Sept. 16, 1922. She attended Baylor University in Waco for two years. She was a member of Eastern Star Goose Creek Chapter No. 798. She was a church librarian.

She was a member of the Baptist Church. She began work with the GA's (girl's auxiliary) in 1946. This led to her being young people's director of the mission organizations of the church and later of Women's Missionary Union of San Jacinto Baptist Association and District 4.

She was president of the WMU of Memorial Baptist Church three times and twice of San Jacinto Baptist Association. She served on the administrative council of San Jacinto Baptist Association several years, and assisted in writing the "History of the San Jacinto Baptist Association."

She served as media director for San Jacinto Baptist Association and was president of San Jacinto Baptist Library organization and then vice-president and Southeast Texas regional director of the Texas Baptist Library convention.

During that time, she and her husband, Charles, were members of First Baptist Church in Baytown where she served as president of their WMU for two terms. She was also active in her Eastern Star Chapter, where she served as an officer.

She served two terms as regent of John Lewis Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also a member of Daughters of 1812, United Daughters of the Confederacy and 39, Study Club, a federated Study club.

She was preceded in death by her husband, on April 7, 1989.

Survivors include a brother, Curtis Marable and wife, Jean, of Stinnett; a sister-in-law, Jewell Garner of Temple; a nephew, Kenneth Gates of Moody; four nieces, Deana Richards of Burkburnett, Ann Pipkin of Spearman, Vermel Bland of Rockdale and Bobbie Jean Nelson of China Spring.

The family suggests memorials be to Ida Parks Thompson Memorial Scholarship, Texas Tech University Foundation, College of Human Science, P. O. Box, 41162, Lubbock, TX 79409-1162; or Alzheimer's Association, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.

The body will be available for viewing until service time Thursday at the funeral home in Stinnett.

(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 11, 2003)

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