Obituaries: Joel King Gates, 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 26, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Joel King Gates Succumbs At 25; Rites Tuesday

Funeral services for Joel King Gates, 25, were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in
Laurel Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Gwin Turner of Vicksburg, Miss.,
officiating, assisted by C. C. Martin.  Burial was in the Garden of Memories
Cemetery in Winnfield under direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.

Mr. Gates, manager of the A & P Meat Market of Vicksburg, Miss., died
Saturday, January 21, 1967 in a Vicksburg hospital after a short illness.  He
was a native of Winn Parish and a member of the Bowmar Ave. Baptist Church in
Vicksburg.

Survivors are his widow, the former Dorothy Lynn Sullivan; a son, Roger Keith
Gates of Vicksburg; a daughter, Jo Lynn Gates of Vicksburg; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Grayson Gates of Winnfield; a sister, Mrs. Judy Ford of Elizabeth
City, N. C.; and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Gates of Sikes.

Pallbearers were Sam Holland, Gary Wayne Kyson, of New Orlenas, Arnold Jordan,
Jr., Billy Poisso, Jim Spikes, E. L. Wiley, Alexandria, Jimmy Beech,
Vicksburg, Miss., and Tommy Jeffers, Vicksburg.

Honorary pallbearers were employees of Southern Trailers Distributors, Inc.,
of Vicksburg, employees of A & P Food Stores, Vicksburg, Miss., and employees
of Illinois Central Railroad.