Vera Gates

Mrs. Gates was an elementary teacher with the Grant Parish School Board for 36 years. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Dry Prong where she taught Sunday school for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Odell M. Gates and her parents, W. J. (Will) and Ava Watson Arrington.

She was survived by one son, Gary W. Gates of Dry Prong; two sisters, Vivian Arrington Tarter of Dry Prong and Marjorie Arrington Hough of Noble; one brother, W. J. Arrington, Jr. of Houston, TX; 2 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.