Obit of Gates, Lottie Merle - Garvin County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 05 Oct 2008 Return to Garvin County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/garvin/garvin.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Oaklawn Cemetery--Sulphur OK Surnames: Gates Lawrence Richardson Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1183 Lottie Merle Gates Services for Lottie Merle Gates, 81, Sulphur will be held Wednesday, March 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Sulphur with Rev. Finis Steelman officiating. Interment will be in Oaklawn Cemetery with Clagg Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Born July 13, 1923 in Wynnewood to Mose Lawrence and ivy Richardson Lawrence, she died Sunday, March 6 in Sulphur. She married S. Jack Gates on August 10, 1940 in Wynnewood. She grew up in Wynnewood, attending school there and moved to Sulphur in 1961. She had worked at the Hilltop Barbecue and later the Artesian Nursing Home. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wynnewood. Surviving are her husband, of the home in Sulphur; two daughters and sons-in-law, Leveta and Durwin Horton, Yukon and Louella and Jody Crabtree, Vanoss; two sons and daughters-in-law, Gerald and Pat Gates, Shawnee and Richard and Lisa Gates, Sulphur; a sister and brother-in-law, Pauline and C.E. Tate, Sulphur; 13 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; tow brohters, Cody and Orval Lawrence and one sister, Beatrice Weeks. Pallbearers wil lbe Justin Gates, Buddy Rushing, Travis J. Gates, Rex Crabtree, Rick Denny and Richard Crabtree. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Garvin County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/garvin/garvin.html