Can anyone identify this person? This is the funeral home
record from Rich & Thompson Funeral Home in Burlington, NC.
Name: Mrs Margaret L. Cates
Residence: Graham, NC
Place of death: Clinic Hospital, Greensboro
Wife of: James W. Cates
Date of death: Nov 19, 1931 at 9:15 am
Date of birth: Jan 6, 1878
Age: 53 yrs, 10 mos, 13 days
Place of birth: Alamance County, NC
Occupation: housewife
Father's name: R. J. Thompson
Mother's maiden name: Amanda K. Davis
Birthplace of father: NC, mother: NC
Informant: J. W. Cates, Graham, NC
Physician: Clinic Hospital Records
Cause of death: <blank>
Place of service: Graham Friends Church, Hour: 11 am
Cemetery: New graveyard, Haw River
Date of burial: Nov 21, 1931
Ministers: Rev D. Virgil Pike & Rev J. U. Fogleman
Acct charged: J. W. Cates
Member of: Graham Friends Church
Surviving: husband J. W. Cates, Graham; dau. Mrs Dora Johnson, Graham;
father R. J. Thompson, Burlington; sister Mrs Alice Douglas,
Burlington; brother Alfred Thompson, R#6, Burlington; one
grandson.
Flower bearers: Mrs R. L. Pickard (in charge), Mrs Lavona Isley, Mrs
Elizabeth Forbis, Mrs Ruby Creed, Miss Katie Forbis, Miss
Joyce Baker, Miss Jacqueline Pickard, Miss Lou Ellison, Miss
Aline Petty, Miss Doris May Lashley, Miss Blanche Doulgas,
Miss Kathleen Douglas, Miss Blanche Squires, Miss Mattie
Cates.
Pall bearers: R. H. Douglas, R. L. Pickard, Thos Squires, Willie
Forbis, Marion Ellison, Jule Ellison
Music: Duet by Mr & Mrs Page Gates
You Must Walk That Lonesome Valley
Land Where We Never Grow Old
-Ken