Cates, Shirley Beth Sellers Jul. 26, 1926 - Mar 6, 2006

BULLARD...
Services for Shirley Cates, 79, Bullard are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Elliott Memorial Chapel, Boren-Conner Funeral Home, Bullard, with the Rev. Tom Terry officiating.
Burial will be in Cates Family Cemetery.
Mrs. Cates died March 6, 2006 at a Tyler hospice.
She was born July 26, 1926 in Martin Mills [Van Zandt County]and lived most of her life in the Bullard area. She retired from Trane Co. after 31 years service and attended Oak Grove Bible Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Kenneth Cates; daughters Susan Kirby and Zell McLemore; and grandson Greg Jenkins.

Survivors include sons, Dwayne Cates, Lindale, and Harold Cates, Bullard; daughter, Barbara Stockton, Bullard; sisters, Margaret Alvey, Lindale, and Gladys Wright, Wichita Falls; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are James Johnson, Paul Crumby, Larry Ellis, Dale Booth, Tom Roper and Lamar Brown.
Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Thursday, March 9, 2006.
Note: Her father was John Sellers and her mother was Anna Sikes Sellers.