Obituaries:  Maggie Melvina Cates, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       C-320
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 25, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Maggie Melvina Cates

  Services for Mrs. Maggie Melvina Cates, 69, of Pelican, were
held at Centuries Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Shreveport, at
10 a.m., Monday, March 16. Officiating was the Rev. Peyton Bass
Jr. Interment followed in Zion's Rest Cemetery near Pleasant
Hill.

  Mrs. Cates died Saturday, March 14, at Highland Hospital, after
a lengthy illness. She was a native of Mansfield, and lived in
Wallace Community.

  She was preceded in death by her husband, Mr. John R. Cates Sr.,
and her brother, Meddie M. Davis Jr.

  Survivors include her daughter, Nancy Stutts Howie of
Shreveport; two sons, Freddie Stutts of Mansfield, and John R.
Cates Jr. of Pleasant Hill; five brothers, Joel M. Davis, and
Percy L. Davis, both of Vidalia, Chester C. Davis of Shreveport,
John T. Davis of Wisner, and Tom H. Davis of Winnsboro; five
grandchildren, Lamar Howie of Cherry Point, N. C., Kevin, and
Landon Stutts of Mansfield, and Stacy, and Sara Cates of Pleasant
Hill.

  Pallbearers were members of the Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge
#230.