Obituaries: Bill Coates, 1973, Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: March 15, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Funeral Rites For Bill Coates Held At Hebron Bill Coates, 64, of Olla, died Sunday morning, March 12, 1972, at his residence of an apparent heart attack. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Tuesday from the Hebron Baptist Church near Sikes. Burial was in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eva Crain Coates of Olla; one daughter, Peggy Brown of Morgan City; one son, Harold Coates of Alexandria; two brothers, J. P. Coates of Rusk, Texas, and Jack Coates of Grayson; three sisters, Mrs. Claudia Gough of Kelly, Mrs. Maggie McMullin of Grayson, and Mrs. Mattie Richardson of Monroe; and five grandchildren.