Obituaries: Elijah Cicero Gates, 1958, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 19, 1958 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Elijah C. Gates, Pioneer Resident of Winn, Is Dead

Final rites for Elijah Cicero Gates, 61 year old Sikes resident, were
conducted Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Friendship Baptist Church, near Sikes,
with the Rev. Willie James, pastor, officiating.

Interment was in the church cemetery.  Acting as pallbearers were Vinson
Simmons, Horace Simmons, Malcolm Simmons, Pierce Simmons, and Mickey Simmons.

Mr. Gates, father of Jack Gates, executive editor of the Monroe News-Star
World, died of a heart attack in a Winnfield hospital Monday night.  He was a
member of a pioneer Winn Parish family, was a farmer, a Mason, and a member of
the Friendship Baptist Church.

In addition to his son, Mr. Gates is survived by his wife, Mrs. Addie Simmons
Gates, Sikes; and four daughters, Mrs. Floyd Bass of Jonesboro; Mrs. Ernest
Culver, Sikes; Mrs. Louis Hickman, Shreveport; and Mrs. Laverne Reynolds,
Dallas, Texas.  He also leaves one brother, C. F. Gates of California; one
sister, Mrs. Joe Davis of Dodson; and 13 grandchildren.