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  2. Elizabeth Jean "Betty" GATES: Birth: 25 APR 1944 in Cottage Grove, Lane Co., Oregon, USA. Death: 9 DEC 2015 in Cottage Grove, Lane Co., Oregon, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Gates, Thelma (Merrell)
2. Title:   Obituary
Page:   Gates, Thelma
3. Title:   Lane Co., Ore. Marriage Index
Page:   bk 33, p 161

Notes
a. Note:   The Register-Guard, Eugene, Lane Co., Ore., Oct. 12, 2008: Thelma Gates
  COTTAGE GROVE — A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Fir Grove Cemetery in Cottage Grove for Thelma Maxine Gates of Cottage Grove, who died Oct. 9 of age-related causes. She was 89.
  She was born May 25, 1919, in Los Angeles to Glenn and Lura Kern Merrell. She married Wayne Gates on Feb. 5, 1939, in Cottage Grove. He died in 1984.
  She graduated from Cottage Grove High School in 1937, and with her husband owned Gates Meat Packing Co.
  Survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Shrock and Elizabeth Black, both of Cottage Grove; a son, Jerry of Cottage Grove; a sister, Nelda Daugherty of Eugene; and nine grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren. A grandson, Steve Leonhardy, died previously.
  Arrangements by Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove. Remembrances to Shriners Children’s Hospital.



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