This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates Berry Tankersley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/766 Message Board Post: Martha Gay Gates Services for Martha Gay Gates, 76, were held Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 10:00 a.m. at the Clagg Funeral Chapel with James Freeman and Carl Hayes officiating. Interment was at the Oaklawn Cemetery under the direction of Clagg Funeral Home. She was born on Monday, Feb. 22 1926 in Sulphur to James Mulky Berry and Ella Tankersley Berry. She died Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003 in Tishomingo. She had lived in the Sulphur area all of her life. She attended and graduated from Sulphur High School. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Barry and Susie Shrader, Tishomingo; three grandchildren, Mercy, Kemper and Kempy and two great grandchildren, Tanner and Payton. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister. Pallbearers were Don Hughes, Charles Latham, Jason Morgan, James Latham, Kevin Morgan, and Lynn McCurtain.