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Bryan-College Station Eagle

Bryan, Texas

January 29, 2003


Mildred Vermel Gates
June 27, 1914 — January 27, 2003

 

     ROCKDALE — Services for Mildred Vermel Gates, 88, of Rockdale and formerly of Hearne are set for 3 p.m. Wednesday at Phillips & Luckey Funeral in Rockdale.

     Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Rockdale.

     Mrs. Gates died Monday at Richards Memorial Hospital in Rockdale.

     She was a resident of Rockdale since 1989 and formerly of Hearne. She was a homemaker.

     She attended elementary school at Cego through the seventh grade and graduated from Marlin High School in 1933. She was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church in Rockdale.

     She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Gates.

     Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Kenneth W. and Jane Gates of Moody; a daughter and son-in-law, Vermel and S. C. Bland of Rockdale; two sisters, Dorothy Stephenson of Belton and Betty Rose of Temple; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.