Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Thursday, December 3, 1987

Grayson Gates

WINNFIELD -- Services for Grayson Gates will be at 10 a.m. today in the chapel of Southern with Dr. Calvin Phelps officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Gates, 74, of Winnfield died at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday in Humana Hospital Winn Parish.

He was a member of First Baptist Church and was a retired agent for the railroad.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Gates of Winnfield; one daughter, Judy Ford of Meridian, Miss.; three sisters, Juanita Smith of Bastrop, Ruth Brown of New Orleans and Betty Ryals of Pine Bluff, Ark.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.