Francis E. Gatewood

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• Gravestone: From Find a Grave, May 2010, Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Francis E "Gene" Gatewood

Birth: Feb. 27, 1930
Pershing
Osage County
Oklahoma, USA
Death: May 17, 2010
Tulsa
Tulsa County
Oklahoma, USA

SYLVIA - Francis Eugene "Gene" Gatewood, 80, died Sunday, May 16, 2010, in Tulsa Okla. Born Feb. 27, 1930, in Pershing, Okla., he was the son of Reginald Eugene and Lela Opal Wilker Gatewood. He graduated as vice-president of his class at Sylvia High School in 1948. In 1947, Gene was a member of the championship basketball team and enjoyed other activities as well.
He served in the Army from 1951-1954.

On July 4, 1951, he married Marilee Book in Pawhuska, Okla. He lived in Sylvia until 1959 and then moved to Norman, Okla., where he worked for Coca-Cola until 1968. They then returned to Sylvia, where they owned and operated Gatewood Grocery for several years. After selling the grocery store, Gene worked at the CO-OP and other various jobs around town. Gene was a member of the Masonic Lodge as well as Eastern Star with Marilee. They attended the Sylvia United Methodist Church. They enjoyed fellowship and playing cards with others in Sylvia.

Marilee died Sept. 28, 2005.

Gene is survived by: one sister, Betty Timmons of Catoosa, Okla.; three children, Debra Kay Stacy of Virginia Beach, Va., Michael Eugene Gatewood of Duluth, Ga., and Jeri Lynette Prickett of Mannford, Okla.; six grandchildren, Jeremy Clingenpeel, Kristyn Clingenpeel, Jaselyn Stacey, Jenna Stacey, Morgan Gatewood and Nicholas Gatewood; and four great-grandchildren, John Thomas Blackwell IV, Brynlee Raye Clingenpeel, Elias Conner Gonzalez and Brenner J. Clingenpeel.

Funeral will be 10 a.m. Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Minnis Chapel, Stafford, with the Rev. Harry Graves presiding. Friends may call 4 to 8 p.m. Friday with the family receiving friends 7 to 8 p.m. at the chapel. Burial will be in Sylvia Cemetery.

Family links:
Spouse:
Marilee Book Gatewood (1930 - 2005)

Burial:
Sylvia Cemetery
Sylvia
Reno County
Kansas, USA

Created by: Phillip H. Pitzer
Record added: Jun 14, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 14604294

Francis married Marilee Book on 4 Jul 1951 in Kansas. (Marilee Book was born on 9 Jul 1930 in Ulysses, Grant, Kansas and died on 28 Sep 2005 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.)