Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gates, Robert Lewis 1995
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Hastings  Reminder  - 12 December 1995
Robert  Lewis  Gates, 76,  of  Lake Odessa, passed  away on  Monday December 
4,  1995  at  Pennock  Hospital in Hastings.   He was born on December 23, 1918 
in Grand Ledge, the son of Burton and Emma (Church) Gates.  He graduated from 
Grand Ledge High School in 1938 and was married to Wilma Elmer in 1946 in Grand 
Ledge.  Mr. Gates was a Captain in the4 United States Army Air Force during 
World War II.  He worked in maintenance in the areas of Lansing, Chicago, Grand 
Ledge and Lake Odessa.

	

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Ford, Russell and Maxwell; one 
sister, Floy.  Surviving  are one daughter,  Mrs. Douglas (Connie) Ide of 
Spring  Lake;  three grandchildren;  one brother, Lawrence Gates of  Bellevue; 
four sisters, Donna Leaske of  Grand Ledge,  Maxine  Barker of rand  Ledge, 
Grace Hemingway of Iron  lake, Frances Schaibly of Indianapolis, Indiana.



Memorial services were held on Saturday, December 9, 1995 at the Koops Funeral 
Chapel in Lake Odessa with Reverend Emmett Kadwell officiating.   Arrangements 
were made by Keeps Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa.





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