This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coates, Huffman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5349 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald, Thur., 15 Aug 2002 Coates Vada H. Coates, 73, of Deer Lodge died Aug. 11 at the Powell County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Friday, Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Military honors will follow at the Hillcrest Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today with a Parish Vigil service at 6 p.m. all at the Jewell Funeral Home. Coates was born April 25, 1929 in Itasa to O.D. and Agnes Huffman. She enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1948. She married William T. Coates, of Deer Lodge, June 4, 1949 in Denver, CO. He served his career in the military and they traveled throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe retiring in Deer Lodge in 1966. They moved to Texas in 1975 and returned to Deer Lodge in 1995. Coates was a business owner and founding member of the Rockdale Emergency Medical Services. She was an active member of the Powell County Senior Citizen's Center and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Deer Lodge. Coates is survived by her husband, William T. Coates, Major, U.S.A.F. (Ret.) of Deer Lodge; son, Jim Coates of Canby, OR; daughters, Patricia Geoppinger of Las Vegas, NV and Shirley Kay Mayfield of San Diego, CA; two sisters and two brothers in Texas; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the American Breast Cancer Society.