TEMPLE -- Services for Toni Gates, 81, of Temple will be 11 a.m., Friday at First Lutheran Church in Temple with the Rev. Rusty Campbell officiating. A viewing is scheduled from 6-8:00 p.m. at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Temple. Burial will be at Waco Memorial Park.
Mrs. Gates died Friday, Jan. 11 at a Temple nursing home.
She was born on December 16, 1937, in Tulsa Oklahoma to Fred and Toni Cress.
She was a graduate of Waco High School and went on to obtain her Associate in Arts degree from Christian College, Columbia Missouri
She married Ron Gates on February 8, 1958 in Waco, Texas.
From 1982 until 1993, Mrs. Gates operated Toni’s Printing in Killeen, Texas.
She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Temple.
Survivors include her husband and sons, Ronald H. Gates, Jr. and Philip Gates as well as seven grandchildren.
