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- Robert Addison Cates - May 3, 1902 - August 3, 1959. Son of Homer Addison and Maude Bessie Pond Cates. Husband of Kathleen Oliver (married August 10, 1923) & Mildred A. Stock (married June 20, 1931.)
Newspaper Obituary - August 5, 1959 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Rites Today For Robert Cates - Robert Cates, 57, a Pulaski resident, died Monday afternoon while at work as a building contractor in Phoenix. Born in Mexico, May 3, 1902, he was the son of Addison and Maude pond Cates. Mr. Cates served with the Seabee's in World War II. He was a member of American Legion Post 358, the South Richland Grange and the Fernwood Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Cates; a daughter, Mrs. June Hilliker; two sons, Gordon of Clifton, New Jersey, and James Cates of Altmar; his mother, Mrs. Maude Cates of Mexico; a sister, Mrs. Albert Lawrence Jr. of Cortland; a brother, George Cates of Pulaski and three grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Taylor Funeral Home, the Rev. Robert Pennock officiating. Burial will be in South Richland Cemetery.
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