Obituaries:  Mrs. Elva Irene Cates, Sabine Parish       C-320
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 20, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Elva Irene Cates

  Services for Mrs. Elva Irene Cates, 90, of Pleasant Hill, were
held at 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 17, in Rose-Neath Chapel in
Mansfield. The Rev. W. C. Campbell, and the Rev. Mel Zerger
officiated. Burial was at Oak Grove Cemetery near Converse.

  Mrs. Cates died Saturday morning, Aug. 15, in North Sabine
Nursing Home in Pleasant Hill, following a lengthy illness. She
was a former lifelong resident of Converse, and was a member of
the Converse Fellowship Baptist Church, and the Retired Teacher's
Assoc.

  Survivors include her four sons, W. Barlow Cates of Noble, Billy
Hugh Cates of Shreveport, Will Allen Cates of New Orleans, George
Cates of Pittsburgh, Pa.; one brother, Jan Barlow of Jackson,
Miss.; ten grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.