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Submitted: 12/1/20 • Approved: 12/2/20 • Last Updated: 12/5/20 • R369344-G0-S3
US Air Force
World War II
November 3, 1920-April 7, 1989
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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
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