Funeral services for Lorraine Ruth Gates are scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 at the First Christian Church in Trenton. Burial will follow in the South Evans Cemetery, north of Trenton.
A visitation is scheduled from 1 p.m. until service time on Sunday at the church. Open visitation will begin on Saturday morning, Jan. 31, 2015 at Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.
Mrs. Gates, a 96-year-old former Trenton resident, died at 11:53 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 at Newmark Care Center in Kansas City.
Mrs. Gates was born on Feb. 15, 1918 in Dunlap, the daughter of Ray Sherman and Ruth Cate Hatfield. She was married in Trenton on Nov. 29, 1938 to Willard Morton Gates. They farmed together until his death on April 23, 1969. She continued to run the farm while working other jobs, including teaching at the Girls Training School in Chillicothe and owning and running Lori B Bridal Shop with her good friend, Betty Hall. She was also active with the First Christian Church and 4-H club. She will be remembered for her great skill with cooking, sewing, crocheting and quilting.
Surviving relatives include her son, Gary Gates and his wife, Karen of Platte City; a daughter, Delores Kimm and her husband, Vernon of Independence; a son-in-law, Richard Winner of Phoenix, AZ; six grandchildren, Terry Brown and her husband, Steve, Michael Kimm, Richard Kimm and his wife, Starleene, Kristi Gorman and her husband, Jim, Suzanne Clemons and her husband, Charles and Katherine Gates; 11 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Those preceding her in death include her parents; husband; a daughter, Beverly Ann Winner; a brother, Harry Dwight Hatfield; and a twin brother, Loren Ray Hatfield.
Memorial donations are suggested to the First Christian Church and may be left with or mailed to the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at whitakereads.com.
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