Lloyd Franklin Gates |
| Posted 2008-03-11 by Sharon |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ January 18, 1957, p. 1 Lloyd Gates Dies Suddenly Monday Funeral services, cremation and burial will be held tomorrow in Bothell, Wash., for Lloyd Franklin Gates who died suddenly of a heart attack at his home just off the Prescott Highway Monday afternoon. Dr. Charles S. Poling conducted family prayers in the Wickenburg Chapel Tuesday afternoon before the family left for Bothell with the body. Mr. Gates was born November 27, 1880, in Indiana. He was a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Michigan law school. He practiced law in Columbia City, Ind., and in Bothell was president of the Bothell Savings & Loan Association for 18 years; served as mayor of that town for eight years; and with his brother Earl owned and operated a group of independent telephone companies in the northern surburbs of Seattle. He retired and moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., three years ago. Attracted to Wickenburg after spending several winters at Cactus Garden Lodge, he and Mrs. Gates purchased the Hazel Haseltine home here in April, 1956, and moved here in June. He was, a member of the American Legion, the Masonic and Shrine orders, the Wickenburg Country Club and the Presbyterian Church. Survivors are the widow Sarah Gates; one sister, Mrs. James Johnston of Newark, 0.; one daughter, Mrs. Don Myers of Charlotte, N. C.; one stepson, Dick Spooner of Seattle; and seven grandchildren. |
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