

Tracy Elizabeth Gates, 52, of Kansas City, Kansas passed away June 18 at Providence Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, June 23 at the Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 N. 94th St., Kansas City, Kansas. Visitation will be from 5:00-8:00 p.m., Friday, June 22 at the Funeral Home. Interment will follow the service in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Tracy was born August 30, 1959 in Kansas City, Kansas to Harold and Mary Jo Sherk. She graduated from Schlagle High School in 1977. She graduated from Kansas City Kansas Community College in 1992 as a Registered Nurse. Tracy loved working as a nurse, for the Kansas City, Kansas Health Department, the Burn Unit at KU Med and working in the ICU and Recovery unit in Providence. She loved her two cats, Lola and Rico and her dog, Puff Daddy. Tracy loved to cook and bake and she always enjoyed having people over to cook and care for. Tracy had a wicked, wild and wonderful sense of humor.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Mary and Joe Sanchez.
Tracy is survived by her mother, Mary Jo Kirby and her husband Larry, daughter Mia Gates, son Ian Gates, brother Joe Sherk, sister Daniele Stone and her husband David, sister Nikki Kirby-Zarazee and many nieces, nephews and friends.
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