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Independent Journal
Tuesday, December 16, 1958
Page 6
Thursday Funeral For Homer Cates
Funeral services will be held Thursday for Homer Franklin Cates, who was one of the original Army Air Service pilots in World War I and who operated a tailor shop at an air base when taken by death.
Cates, 69, died in a police car en route to San Rafael General Hospital Sunday afternoon. He had suffered from a heart condition.
Funeral services will be at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael, with burial in Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno.
Cates formerly operated a tailor shop on Fourth street in San Rafael. Then he opened a shop at Hamilton Air Force Base, which he was operating until his death.
A San Rafael resident for 25 years, Cates made his home at 23 Sentinel court.
He was a member of San Rafael Lodge 1108, B.P.O. Elks.
Widowed in 1951, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Evans of San Rafael and Mrs. Monroe Schooler of Tooele, Utah.
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Independent Journal
Wednesday, December 17, 1958
Page 6
DEATHS
CATES – In San Rafael, Dec. 14, 1958, Homer F. Cates, husband of the late Grace E. Cates, brother of Mrs. Beatrice Evans and Mrs. Monroe Schooler; uncle of Mrs. Laverne Helms and Mrs. Marjorie Brown; a native of Colorado, aged 69; a member of San Rafael Lodge BPOE No. 1108.
Friends are invited to attend the funeral Thursday, Dec. 18, 1958, at 12:30 p.m. at Keaton’s Mortuary, San Rafael. Interment, Golden Gate National Cemetery.
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