NAME:    Mrs. Laretta Gates

AGE:   80

RESIDENCE:   Hooks, TX

DIED:     Friday, May 18, 2018

PLACE:   Local hospital

BACKGROUND

BIRTHDATE:    October 14, 1937

BIRTHPLACE:     Hooks, TX

OCCUPATION:   Housewife

CHURCH AFFILIATION:  Red Bank Baptist Church

SURVIVORS

SPOUSE:   Melvin Gates of Hooks, TX

1 DAUGHTER:   Wanda Booker of Hooks, TX

4 BROTHERS AND 1 SISTER-IN-LAW:   Earnest Dixon and Roosevelt Dixon both of Texarkana, TX; Mack and Doris Dixon of Wright City, OK and Mert Dixon of Kansas City

3 SISTERS:  Betty Maddox of Minneapolis, MN; Tilda Sims and Marilyn Range both of Hooks, TX

2 GRANDCHILDREN

SERVICE:

TIME/DAY:  Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 11:00 A.M.

PLACE:   Red Bank Baptist Church

OFFICIATING:   Rev. Herman Gooden

VIEWING:   Saturday, June 2, 2018 – one hour prior to the service at the Church – 10:00 – 11:00 A.M.

BURIAL:   Red Bank Cemetery

ADDITIONAL: Mrs. Gates was predeceased by her brother – Melvin Dixon.