Melissa Dawn Gates

Female 1980 - 2015  (35 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Melissa Dawn Gates was born 13 Apr 1980, Texas City, Galveston County, Texas, USA (daughter of Edward Glenn Gates and R.D. Sanford); died 23 Nov 2015, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, USA; was buried , Galveston Memorial Park - Hitchcock, Texas, USA .

    Melissa married E.M. Mireles [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. E. Mireles

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Edward Glenn Gates was born 23 Aug 1950, Tokyo, Japan; died 2 Mar 1981, Texas City, Galveston County, Texas, USA; was buried 4 Mar 1981, Galveston Memorial Park - Hitchcock, Texas, USA .

    Notes:

    Obituary:

    Funeral services for Edward Glenn Gates, 30, of Hitchcock, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the chapel of the James Crowder Funeral Home, the Rev. Robert King officiating.

    Burial will be at Galveston Memorial Park, under the direction of James Crowder Funeral Home. Mr. Gates died Monday afternoon at Memorial Hospital of Galveston County. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, on August 23, 1950.

    He was employed as operator for Amoco Chemical Co. in Texas City. He was a veteran of Viet Nam having served in the Air Force and was a member of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. He lived in the Hitchcock, La Marque area for 24 years.

    Survivors include his wife, Becky Sanford Gates, of Hitchcock; his mother, Mrs. Alice Gates, of La Marque; a daughter, Melissa Gates of Hitchcock; three brothers, Douglas Gates of Baytown, Kenneth Gates of La Marque and Tommy Gates also of La Marque. Aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews also survive.

    Pallbearers will be Douglas Gates, Kenneth Gates, Tommy Gates, Donny Roberts, John Priddy, Gary Jones, Darrell Wilson and Richard Bunker. Honorary pallbearers will be Bobby Moore, Gary Alexander, Thornton Clark, Keith Billerbeck, Ed Sanford, Kevin Sanford and fellow workers in the polybutane department at Amoco Chemical Company.

    Visitors may call at the James Crowder Funeral Home after 8 a.m. today.

    (Published in The Galveston Daily News on March 4, 1981)

    Edward married R.D. Sanford [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  R.D. Sanford
    Children:
    1. 1. Melissa Dawn Gates was born 13 Apr 1980, Texas City, Galveston County, Texas, USA; died 23 Nov 2015, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, USA; was buried , Galveston Memorial Park - Hitchcock, Texas, USA .


Generation: 3

  1. 6.  Edwin Sanford was born 30 Mar 1936, Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 9 Jun 1970, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; was buried 10 Jun 1970, Beulah Cemetery - Calhoun, Louisiana, USA.

    Notes:

    Obituary:

    Edwin Sanford, 34, of LaMarque, Tex., died in Houston, Tex., Tuesday from an apparent self - inflicted gunshot wound.

    Funeral services for Mr. Sanford will be at 3 p.m. today in Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel of West Monroe with the Rev. Pearcy Keene officiating. Burial will be in the Beulah Cemetery near Calhoun.

    Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Barbara Sanford; two sons, Edwin Sanford Jr. and Kevin Eugene Sanford; one daughter, Miss Rebecca Dianne Sanford, all of LaMarque; seven brothers, Buck Sanford, Jimmy Sanford, Donald Sanford, all of Calhoun, Vollie Sanford Jr. of Bakersfield, Calif., Kenneth Sanford of San Antonio, Tex., George Sanford of LaMarque and Eugene Sanford of Lafayette, Calif.; and six sisters, Mrs. Flo Kurtty of Midwest City, Okla., Mrs. Beatrice Worley of Monroe, Mrs. Laurice Templeton of Houston, Mrs. Delores Miller of San Antonio, and Misses Sherry Sanford and Linda Sanford, both of Calhoun.

    (Published in The Monroe News-Star on June 12, 1970)

    Edwin married B.A. Coon [Group Sheet]


  2. 7.  B.A. Coon
    Children:
    1. E.D. Sanford
    2. 3. R.D. Sanford
    3. K.E. Sanford


Generation: 4

  1. 14.  Lloyd Wesley Coon was born 12 Aug 1912, Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA; died 15 Oct 1998, Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried 18 Oct 1998, Roselawn Memorial Gardens - Calhoun, Louisiana, USA.

    Lloyd married Ida Mae Sparks 14 May 1935, Bossier City, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA. Ida (daughter of Thomas Jackson Sparks and Lillie Mae Bumgardner) was born 27 Aug 1915, Ida, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 8 Dec 1994, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; was buried , Roselawn Memorial Gardens - Calhoun, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 15.  Ida Mae Sparks was born 27 Aug 1915, Ida, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA (daughter of Thomas Jackson Sparks and Lillie Mae Bumgardner); died 8 Dec 1994, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; was buried , Roselawn Memorial Gardens - Calhoun, Louisiana, USA.
    Children:
    1. Kenneth Lloyd Coon, Sr. was born 14 Oct 1935, Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, USA; died 8 Dec 2022, Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, USA; was buried 13 Dec 2022, Indian Village Cemetery - Indian Village, Louisiana, USA.
    2. 7. B.A. Coon
    3. P.M. Coon
    4. T.C. Coon