Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gates, Onilee (Warner) (Coulson) 1990 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 15, 2011, 11:48 am Ionia Sentinel, Aug 1990 Funeral services were held Aug. 20 at Stebbins and Simpson Funeral Home, Sheridan, for Onilee (Coulson) Gates, 80, of 492 Belding Road, Orleans, who died Aug. 16, 1990, at Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids. The Rev. Dr. Robert Braman officiated with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Ionia. Mrs. Gates was born Oct. 29, 1909 in Barryton, the daughter of Rupert and Ethel Hill Warner. A longtime Sheridan resident she was a retired teacher who taught in Keifer, Greenville and Sheridan elementary schools. She was a member of Ionia-Montcalm Retired Teachers Association, Sheridan Congregational Church and the Restless Ones Trailer Club. Her first husband, Harry Coulson, died in 1976. She is survived by her husband, Russell Gates, whom she married July 13, 1985. Also surviving are three daughters and a son-in-law, Beverly Beach, Orleans, Louise and Jack MacNaughton, Sheridan, Donalee Kapp, Monroe; two stepchildren and their spouses, Robert and Charlene Gates, Stanton, Sharon and Joel Jones, Sheridan; a sister, Donna Dinning, Ionia; a brother, Tom Warner, Sidney; 22 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, six step-grandchildren, 10 step-great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Sheridan Congregational Church. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/g/gates14790nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb