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Name: George Gates City: Lorane County: Lane State: Oregon Birthplace: Crow, Oregon; United States of America Birth Date: 13 Sep 1888 Race: White Roll: 1852059 DraftBoard: 0 Age: 28 Occupation: Farmer Nearest Relative: Height/Build: Tall/Medium Color of Eyes/Hair: Dark Brown/Dark Brown Signature: View _______________________ 1920 Lane Co., Ore. Census, Coyote Pct., ED #234, taken 19 Jan 1920, p 5B [Ancestry.com, Coyote Pct., ED #234, Image #3]:
Gates, George - Head - age 31 - b. Ore. - F born Iowa - M born Ore. - Farmer - General Farm - Dwelling #108 - Family #109 " , Estella - Wife - age 27 - b. Ore. - F born Vermont - M born Cal. " , Juanita - Daughter - age 7 - b. Canada - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Agnes - Daughter - age 4 ?/12 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Wayne - Son - age 2 ?/12 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. _______________________ 1930 Lane Co., Ore. Census, Cottage Grove Election Pct. No. 2, ED #16, taken 3 Apr 1930, p 2A [Ancestry.com, Cottage Grove Pct., ED #16, Image #3]:
Gates, Geo. - Head - age 41 - b. Ore. - F born Iowa - M born Ore. - Prop. - Meat Mkt - Dwelling #44 - Family #49 - address 708 Gibbs " , Estella - Wife-H - age 38 - b. Ore. - F born Mass. - M born Cal. " , Juanita - Daughter - age 17 - b. Canada - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Agness - Daughter - age 15 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Wayne - Son - age 12 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Melba - Daughter - age 10 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. " , Helen - Daughter - age 3 7/12 - b. Ore. - F born Ore. - M born Ore. _____________________________________________________________ Interview with George Gates by Ambrose Canaday at Cottage Grove, Aug 1977, transcribed by Zelda Harwood:
A - We are looking at a picture of a Grange dinner made in 1943. I counted this morning and I counted 51 people in that picture who are dead already. (Some of the people in the picture are named at random). George Canaday, Joe Liles, Mr. Jackson, Richard Landers, Mrs. Hinkson (Nell Holland's mother), Mrs. Layne, Mrs. Liles, Emma Weyer, Rich Hayes, Henry Leohner, Nora Brabham, Kate Liles, Nettie Fleck, Virgil Liles, Naomi Liles, Bill Fisher, Will Brabham, Ona Liles, John Clausner, Mrs. Clausner, Charlie Sovern.
A - Didn't you use to live up there on that homestead?
GG - The Shrimp place? Yes.
A - It's back in there where Bowman's mill is now.
GG - I sold that to Bowman. You see, I bought that about 500 acres in there. I sold the timber to Bowman.
A - Was George Hadley still alive when you were there.
GG - Oh, yes. You see, we used to run cattle on George Hadley's place there, one time I went over there and he said he wanted to sell some cattle. I went with him up along the cemetery fence there and he found some of his cattle there and he started picking them out till he had 31 head of them. I forget just what the price then anyway I quoted him a price and he said "You aren't going to jew me that way, I want $10. more apiece for them" I said 'Well, I haven't got that kind of money, George.' I told him he'd have to get his money when I sold them then. I killed that bunch of cattle and sold a lot of them at the old Public Market, sold some to Bill Green Market on 9th street, George had me on that cause he was one of the best friends I had. Henry was George's brother. The Shimp boys that I bought the place from, they were fine fellows. When I came her to Cottage Grove I'd bought the Rauch place about that time. Ben Jeans was the Administrator on that, he wanted to sell for cash, they had a chance of selling on contract and I said I'd give so much cash. I'd spent my money starting here in Cottage Grove so they say they'd take $6395. dollars. I went around trying to borrow that much money. I went to the Shrimp boys and told them I needed $1000. to have enough to close the deal. I told them I'd give them a mortgage on the piece right back of them there. Jim went to the house, he come back there and he had a check for $1000. I said, gee, Jim, I'll have to get Stella to sign the mortgage. He said 'we don't any any mortgage, you know you owe it and we know you owe it.'
A - I think people did things like that then.
GG - Yes, they'd just shake hands on a loan or anything thata way and that was good as your signature. Yes, you bet, those good old days were something alright.
A - I think people lived closer together in those days. Now you hardly know your next door neighbor.
GG - Yes, and they don't trust you anymore like they used to.
A - Do you have those Senior Citizen meetings up here like they do at Crow now?
GG - I don't think they do. We might have them but I never attended any. Delmer wanted me to come down to Crow to a meeting about two or three weeks, he said some of the old timers come there. He said Flem Henderer and Fred Smigley were still out there. I went to school with Fred. He's about a year and a half or two years younger than I am.
A - I think Fred is eighty-five.
GG - I'll be 89 next month.
A - Are you older than Dora?
GG - No, no, Dora is 18 months older than I am. Allie is 18 months younger. The boys you see, Eldon was about 14 years younger, and Delmer was 18 years younger. Arlo was still younger.
A - We were talking about that the other day. Your folks had, you might say, two separate families.
GG - Two different sets of children.
A - The younger set went before the older set did.
GG - Yeah, you see, Dora and I are in the older set and that don't happen very often.
A - You know, Delmer and I was settin' right side by side there the day he died. We was talking about the cemetery up there. I always figured he'd be buried there.
GG - He told me several years ago, when we was up there one time, he was settled on cremation. I said to him, 'Well, I've got my name on a stone up her in Shields Cemetery. You see, I got the first wife a stone so I got one for the two of us.
A - Well now, you left here and went to Canada. GG - That was in 1912. You see, I went to Weiser, Idaho and I run a meat market in Weiser, Idaho for two years, 1910 to 1912. Sold out in the early part of 1912, came back to Eugene, and that's when Stella and I was married, Feb. 28, 1912. Went to Canada in April and homesteaded in Alberta, Canada. We lived there for three years, came back, and went back up in 1916. I proved up on my homestead. When I owned that homestead for three years I traded that homestead, sight unseen, for 160 acres of land out here on Little River. I never saw what I got but Bob went up to see what he got. Soon after sold it for $500. I helt this timber I got, it didn't amount to much at that time but I held it for several years, 8 or 9 years, I think. I offered it for sale for $1000. It didn't sell. So I said to Stella, 'I'm gonna raise the price on that and I bet it'll sell. So I did. I advertised it in the Roseburg paper for $5000. In just a weeks time, a fellow from the Roseburg Timber Co. called up, and I was in the meat market then, He said, 'Is that right that you're the man who owns a certain piece of land on Little River?' I said, 'Yes. He said, 'Will you hold it till I can get my crew to go over it?' That was about two o'clock and about 9 he called up and said get your papers ready and we'll take that place.
A - Your Father came here, was that your Grandfather that bought that place (at Crow).
GG - Grandfather bought that place. It was known as the old Rowe place but he bought it from Jameson. That was in 1870. Dad was 7 years old. I don't know just when Grandfather Gates did pass away but we lived on that place continually. I talked to Father about the size of that orchard there. He said it seemed to him that those trees were just as large then as when they came there in 1870. That was just a few years back. That was a nice big orchard. I've often wondered where they got all the different varieties. There's some pears and apples, you know, better than some of the later improvements.
A - Of your Father's brothers which one was the oldest?
GG - John. John was the oldest. Then Henry. I forget about Billy, but Uncle Jake Gates was just about a year and a half older than Dad. Dad was the youngest of a family of 14 children.
A - I remember a Frances Rauch.
GG - Yes, she was a fine old lady. She acted as a mid-wife around there. She brought a lot of them into this world.
A - She was Emery Rauch's grandmother, wasn't she?
GG - Yes, Emery Rauch's grandmother. She was a strong Catholic. I saw Emery and Mrs. Cooney hauled in and baptised at the old Rauch place. You see, his folks had separated and Frances was raising Emery. He was just a little kid, and when the priest sprinkled him, he said to Emery 'Now take this white raiment and dry your face.' Emery said 'Take it away, I don't want the damn thing.' I hear Emery's quite religious now.
A - Yes, he is. Do you know Glen Sroufe. That's Aunt Till's boy?
GG - Yes, that's Aunt Till's boy.
A - I used to run around with Glen some hunting.
GG - Let's see, his mother lived down there by Walton?
A - Yes, she married Walt Pickens. Now you talking about this swearing, Tillie, now she could swear. I was raised right across the road from Ed Hoselton and Tillie would come up there. I remember when I was a little kid Emma Holland, Pickens it used to be, she used a lot of swear words. She got in such a habit of doing it, I don't think she even knew she did. When she'd get after her kids she'd have to use a lot of swear words. I used to think when I was a kid that Emma Holland was the crankiest old woman I ever saw, but you know, there was five of us kids and there was five of the Holland kids, together there was 10 of us kids and we were either in the creek or in her house running up and down inside the house. Looking back at it, I wonder why she ever put up with it.
GG - Do you remember the Kraal folks, old lady Kraal, and let's see his name was Lewis Kraal. I remember them telling when I was a young fellow that he killed five grizzly bears with six shots and that was an old muzzle loader.
A - That was a little before my time, course I knew Vic Kraal. You see, my Dad was born in Eugene but he went over to Eastern Oregon and stayed over there for 15 years or more. He met my mother over there, and was married over there. I was born in Burns. The folks came back over here when I was about 4 years old, and we moved right down there on Territorial Road right where Veneta is now. Do you remember old Porter?
GG - He was kind of an old trapper. You go by there in the spring or winter and he'd always have a few hides strung up there and you could go down to your Grandfathers. He run Madison Post Office.
A - Yeah, well that's where we moved when we come back here, in that old Porter house. I was four years old. Marion was born on what they call the old Job place, at the corner of Fleck and Territorial.
GG - You've heard them tell about that ditch or creek that runs through there? That was dug by hand when they had the sawmill down on the Marion Job place. you see, they taken timber from up in there on the Varney place. The ditch was dug straight through and they could just put them in one behind the other and float them right down there.
A - Who run the sawmill?
GG - I just don't know. Jim Job probably did. He was an old timer there. In fact, Jim built that old schoolhouse there at Crow.
A - Yeah, I know he did. He built that two-storied house there in Veneta and he was an old man then. He'd get up and run around there like a young guy. Someone said 'He's liable to fall off there and hurt himself.' John Hooker said 'Ah, he'd fall so slow it wouldn't hurt him any.' yes, I can remember old Jim Job well enough. They always talked about him being slow. I know all them Job/s. Them was Jim, Marion, jack, he had, no it was Rube had the wooden leg. Let's see, his daughter married a Gammell, didn't she?
GG - Yes, Ida, and one girl married Charlie Miller.
A - Ruby married Elmer Anderson. The one who married a Jenkins was Ruby Anderson's girl. She died here in Cottage Grove not long ago.
GG - Wayne Jenkins lives here in Cottage Grove.
A - Yes, I saw him not long ago. He come down to the old timers reunion at Crow, he told me he was going to come down and see me after the Fourth but he hasn't showed up yet. He's got a boy stays with him and drives him around.
GG - Wayne's about a year or year and a half older than I am. He and Bill went to school there at Crow.
A - You probably went to those ball games over at Central, didn't you?
GG - Yeah, you see, we owned that old Rowe place. Delmer and Eldon used to play ball. About three or four of the Holland boys played ball. I remember one time Frank came along there and he stopped and ate supper with us. He was talking about playing ball and he said 'I'm afraid it's gonna rain. It rained on Easter Sunday so it'll rain on six or seven Sundays while we're out playing ball.' Then after these younger fellows came on, Delmer and Eldon, that was about the time of Burr Fitch, Henry Rowe. Gene Holland was their catcher.
A - I can remember that, old Charlie Miller, he never did miss a ball game. He was out there every time it seemed like. Those were the days when people got together more.
GG - Yeah, like the Fourth of July they'd have a big time, you know.
A - It seemed like you knew every body in the neighborhood. I used to think I knew most of the people in Veneta, Crow and some of them in Lorane, now I don't know a fifth of them anymore.
GG - We used to go to the Fourth of July Celebration at Elmira a lot of times. I remember that the Marshalls of the Day would be the two Hales, George and Kansas Hale.
A - I remember Kansas real well. He had that wen on the back of his neck. Dad said he went to school with him. Farmer is about the only one left up there of the old time Hales.
GG - Is Darwin, did he die?
A - Yeah, he's dead. They lived in that old house for years and never did paint it. Just lately now he's painted it. [Note: It was actually Farmer Hale that lived in the unpainted house. - Barbara Herring]
GG - That hale place use to be the old stage stop. Darwin Hale drove that stage and that used to go from Eugene to Mapleton. They run two stages. One would get to Mapleton and the other would start right back to Eugene.
A - Didn't Bangs run those stages awhile?
GG - Yes, Bangs run the stage and then after Bangs sold out to McNutt.
A - You know, in the winter that was quite a job getting those stages through.
GG - A big lot of that was night driving. I've heard them tell about Bert Gates drove on the run and a fellow who lived up Indian Creek hunting knew that the stage come by about three in the morning. He was going to go back down to Mapleton, by golly, he was out there and since he'd been hunting he had his gun with him. He saw the lights on the horses collars and knew the stage was coming. He just stepped out still holding his gun. Bert thought it was a hold up and instead of stopping he just whipped up the horses and went right on by and leaving that fellow standing.
A - I think a lotta times those old timers that run those stores out there in the winter time that was quite a job to get those supplies out there.
GG - Yeah, you take that stage route with my Dad when I was a pretty young boy. We'd go down to Mapleton and stay about a week. We'd stay at Rice's place. We'd troll about a week for salmon. Everybody in the neighborhood would say 'bring me so many salmon and this and that. When we got ready to come back, the Rice boys would take our fish we caught every day and when we got ready to come back we'd have 100 to 150 salmon. Anyway they were selling at the cannery at Acme and they were getting $.10 apiece for silvers and $.25 apiece for Chinook.
A - You know, when we were living at Veneta, Dad got sick and the doctors told him they thought he would be better off at the coast, so they moved to Toledo. We lived there six years. I can remember when the fish boats would come in, you know, we could buy a salmon for $.20. There's alot of difference from that and now days. One of my wife's nephews was out here a couple weeks ago visiting and we went down to Florence and stopped in at stand where they sell crab and stuff. We were going to buy some smoked salmon and I think it was $5.25 a pound. That's kind ridiculous. Getting back to the old days in Crow, there, I started to school there when I was in the fifth grade. I went to school with Eldon there, and I think I was probably in the eighth grade when Delmer was in the first or second. We used to walk to school.
GG - I cam remember you boys come walking.
A - I come by that school the other day and the kids were all out playing. When we went to school you had 15 minute recess in the morning, a half hour noon, and a 15 minute recess in the afternoon. I said to a teacher, 'when do these kids study' She said 'What did you do for your physical education.' I said 'Well, I did my chores before I started to school and I walked about 3 1/2 mile to school and then walked home after school.
GG - I went to school there in the old school house. I went to school with Walt Holland.
A - Do you remember just what year that schoolhouse was built? The one Jim Job built.
GG - No, I don't remember just what year it would have been. I was a small kid. I say, it would have been before 1900. I know that because Dad's house there was built in 1901. I couldn't say just when that school was built but I remember one thing. Jim Job got $400 dollars for building that school. Furnished the lumber and built the school for $400.
A - I know they said they found some square nails in it.
GG - No doubt, when Dad built the house there in 1900-1901 you could buy those square nails for 3 cents a pound. The other nails were 4 cents. The round ones were 4 cents so that house didn't have any square nails in it. Charlie Schole built the house. He was a brother-in-law of George Hunter, and that house, talk about wages, Dad paid Charlie Schole $71 for the carpenter work on that house. I hauled the lumber, all the lumber for that house, from Walter's sawmill there in Elmira. Dad would let me take the big team and go there and old man Stephenson, he'd check me out and help me load. you had the Holland hill to pull, and if you had rough lumber about 12pp feet was about all you could get up the hill. Planed lumber you could probably haul 1500 or 1700 feet over there. The flooring in the house, Dad got thicker flooring. Instead of 1 inch flooring, he got 1 1/4 inch flooring. Old man Walters said 'Joe, that will cost you more. It'll cost you $18 a thousand to get 1 1/4 in flooring.'
A - Who started the first Crow store there?
GG - Alright, Tom Burg, a brother to Leo and those, he run that store, see, he was an Uncle to Fred Smigley. He run that store there. I don't know just when it started, but I know that Joe Fleck, a young fellow came from Iowa, he was a real young fellow and he bought that store from Tom Burg. I must have been about 6 or 8 years old at that time. Joe Fleck run that store there for awhile and then he sold it to Charlie Varney, a year or so after, he built this other building, south there.
A - Was that where the building stood, about where the garage is now?
GG - Yes, that's about where the first store was, where the garage is now.
A - When did Sturtevant take it over? Do you remember?
GG - Well, Joe fleck run it for several years and then he left Nettie to run the store and he went to Elgin and got a job working in a sawmill. About that thime he sold it to Sturtevant. I remember Burch Hamilton boarded there with Nettie and went to school.
A - I was going to talk to Naomi about that one time and then she got sick and I didn't get there. She had a picture of that old store when Sturtevants had it. I know cause my Dad taken. My Dad traveled around and made pictures.
GG - I can remember that when your Dad and John Marsh, they made a trip around and made pictures. I think they drove a team.
A - After Dad went down to Toledo, he wasn't able to do any hard work so he studied up and he came out here to Eugene and he got Emma Weyer to set up a finishing shop in Eugene and he had the shop in Toledo and he sorta worked in between. he went out and around the coast on a bicycle and took pictures. He closed that out about 1911 when we came back here.
GG - In 1910, I was in Weiser, Idaho, till 1912 I run a meat market there. I come back in 1912.
A - I remember Dad bought two heifers from you when you were up there on the Shrimp place. One of those heifers made a pretty good cow. I can't remember what happened to the other one. That cow got to be a good milker and a neighbor put their horses up there in our yard and that danggone cow got into their grain and got foundered and died. She got that grain and the first thing you know she headed for the creek.
GG - Do you remember then when that road was graded through there?
A - Who wrote the contract on that? Old Horace Mathews? Let's see, there was two contractors. I can't think of their names, though.
GG - They graded on up to Gillespie corner though. I remember that.
A - Yeah, I worked for them. When Matthews got his job done I went up and worked for them. (Note: Here the tape got too hard to understand in it's entirety so since I couldn't understand it all will leave it out. It was Ambrose's experience working on the road at that time - Zelda Harwood).
GG - Years ago, you know, that road went up Battle Creek and over Granger Mountain and down Swinging Log.
A - Yeah, it still does as far as that goes. It's been graveled and they use it for a logging road. You know that old road that went up Wolf Creek there by the Lambert place.
GG - That Lambert place is where you started up the hill there. That's where my Mother lost her arm. About a mile and a half up there, the folks were going over to pick blackberries over Grandmother Logan's. Dad had built a brand new wagon and he'd never fastened the brake blocks. We met Ans Hunnicutt. So he said 'I can back this right down' there was a flat spot back down the hill about 100 feet. He unhooked the team and Aunt Addie got in to hold the brake. There was eight of us children, us 3, and Uncle Jake's 5, in the wagon. There was eight of us children and when Aunt Addie unloosed the brake and it started backwards it jerked that brake block off there so she had no hold on it. The wagon started over the grade. Mother ran forward to grab us kids off there and she ran her arm right through that shield around the brake. I remember well ten of running back to Deke Hoselton's place there. Mother broke her arm and she was pretty badly bruised up and about that time your Grandfather Canaday came along. he was hauling lumber for himself, and he treated her there. That was in blackberry time, and in the winter time, they had been trying to save that hand, and in the winter time then, they decided they'd have to take that hand off. So the Doctors come out form Eugene and cut Mother's arm off there at Crow. that was Doctor Cribus, he was a friend of the family, and he said 'Well, I'll tell ya, I'll set the price, and my bill will be $12.50. So he paid the three doctors $37 to drive out from Eugene and perform the operation.
A - Well, I've got a book down home that Grandfather had and i don't remember who it was but he charged this woman $12.50 for delivering her baby. Wouldn't have charged that much but he had to stay all night. I don't know what his regular charge was.
GG - Ten dollars was about what they charged, I think, I remember when Lloyd Diess was born I went down to their place there at Madison to get Dr. Canaday. He wouldn't ride anymore, he used to ride that sorrel horse. He wouldn't ride anymore so they sent me, I was a young fellow then it was about the first year I went to business college, they sent me with the team to Dr. Canaday. I remember that when we went down that Holland Hill the track went around a high spot, and one horse decided he'd go one way and the other horse the other and they just straddled that high spot. I just about took the axle out. But I got down there and got the Doctor and got back. Lloyd Diess was born there at the old hophouse. When Frances Rauch was a mid-wife $2 was her fee. She brought lottsa babies into the world.
A - Nowadays I guess it costs about $1000.
GG - More than that I think.
Tape Ends. __________________________________________________________________________________ My Gates Family Tradition By Brennan Black
My Great Grandfather, George Gates, sold his first pound of steak in Cottage Grove on July 3, 1925. As a young man, he learned about butchering while working for Broders Brothers in Eugene, Oregon. After butchering three years in Weiser, Idaho and two years in Canada, he opened his own butcher shop in Cottage Grove, Oregon. On July 3, 1925, George opened a meat market where the State Savings Bank is now. He then moved his family down from Eugene on July 4th to a house where Safeway is now. They later moved the market to 717 Main Street where Automotive Grinding is now.
George only sold meat in town, the butchering was done on Thornton Lane. George sold hamburger for 25 cents for two pounds. The best steaks went for 65 cents a pound.
In back of the showcase at the market, there was a large wooden cutting block in the middle of the floor. The floor was covered with sawdust to prevent any unpleasant odors.
George brought his son, Wayne, into the business when he was about twelve. In 1937 Wayne met Thelma Merrell at the Heburn Church during a valentine party. Wayne and Thelma later married on February 5, 1939. Thelma would come in and help in the butcher shop on afternoons, Saturdays and when George would go hunting. Thelma would work with Estella, my great-grandma, plucking chickens and building fires under the vats. Wayne used to walk down to the old hotel and get meat orders. One day Thelma pinned an old calf tail to his apron string, and he, unknowingly walked down Main Street with it. When he got back, he wasn't too happy.
Juanita Gates, my grandpa's sister, also helped in the market. She started as a young girl. She would do house chores and go to the market. In the back, there was a big black kettle that was used to render lard. Juanita and Agnes would stir the lard to keep it from burning. As they were stirring the cracklings, they would try to grab some without burning their hands. George would tell them not to eat so many or they would get a stomachache. Sometimes Juanita would deliver meat on a bicycle.
George retired in 1951, and the business went to Wayne. Wayne moved it closer to his home on Gowdyville Road. Wayne and Thelma had three children, Evelyn, Betty and Jerry. The whole family worked at the market. Jerry returned to the business in the early 1970's after four years in the Air Force.
Wayne died in 1984. Since then Jerry has been running the business. Jerry and his wife, Sandi, have three children, Gary, Shannon and Alan. Shannon and Alan work at the family plant. Jerry's future plans include "running Safeway out of business". He would also like to turn the old Rose Meat Locker on South 7th into a deli.
All of this is part of my "Gates" family tradition.
Bibliography
Gates, Jerry. Personal interview, 17 Jan. 1993. Gates, Juanita. Phone interview, 7 Jan. 1993. Gates, Thelma. "Gates Raised Family, Helped Run Business", Cottage Grove Sentinel, 1980. Gates, Thelma. Personal interview, 12 Jan. 1993. Ronan, Jim. Spring Board, Cottage Grove, Oregon: High School Folklore, 1976. The Writers Discussion Group. Golden was the Past, Index and Supplement, Cottage Grove, Oregon, 1972. _________ GATES--George Gates of 332 J Street, Cottage Grove, died March 14, 1978 at the age of 89. He was born September 13, 1888 at Crow, living in Canada, Weiser, Idaho, and Eugene before moving to Cottage Grove in 1925 to open a meat market. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 51 AF&AM, Royal Arch No. 41, Blue Lodge, Commandery No. 24 Cerrogordo, Eastern Star Cottage Grove Chapter No. 4, Hillah Shrine Temple, Ashland, Oregon, Dorena Grange No. 835. He was pre-deceased by a wife, Estella, and a daughter, Helen Peterson. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a son Wayne of Cottage Grove; 3 daughters: Juanita Rasmussen of London, Agnes Clark of Creswell, and Melba Pimentel of Springfield; a sister, Dora Diesse (sic) of Eugene; 8 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren. Graveside funeral services will be Thursday March 16, 1978 at 1:30 p.m. at Shields Cemetery. Ritualistic services by Masonic Lodge no. 51 AF&AM. SMITH-LUND FUNERAL CHAPEL directors. _______________________________________________ Shields Cem., Cottage Grove, Lane Co., Ore. - inscription:
- - - - - - - - - - - - GATES - - - - George - - - - - - - - - - Estella 1888 Father 1978 - - 1892 Mother 1958 ___________________________ Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998:
Name: Gates, George County: Lane Death Date: 14 Mar 1978 Certificate: 78-04268 Spouse: Mary Birth Date: 13 Sep 1888 _______________________ Social Security Death Index:
GEORGE GATES SSN 542-52-4891 Residence: 97424 Cottage Grove, Lane, OR Born 13 Sep 1888 Last Benefit: Died Mar 1978 Issued: OR (1962)
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