Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, August 26, 1980

E. W. Gates

SHREVEPORT, LA.

Services for Mr. E. W. Gates, 76, 612 West 70th St., will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday August 27 at Rose-Neath Southside Chapel, Dr. W. D. “Step” Martin, Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, where he was a a member, officiating. Burial will be in Centuries Memorial Park.

He died Monday at 5:20 a.m. at Doctor's Hospital.

Mr. Gates was a native of Sikes, La., lived in Shreveport for 50 years, and was a Projectionist with Gulf State Theatres.

Survivors include his wife, Martha Gates, Shreveport; three sons, W. F. Gates, Deadwood, TX, G. W. Gates, Jonesboro, LA, and Kenneth J. Gates, Tulsa, OK; one daughter, Mrs. Carl T. Flowers, Sr., Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Jim McDaniel, Lamar, MO, and Mrs. Ruby Kelly, Monroe, LA; one brother, J. E. Gates, Urania, LA; 12 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Building Fund of Calvary Baptist Church.