Billy Ray

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IN LOVING MEMORY

Billy Ray Cates

Sep 05 1946 - Feb 18 2018

BILLY RAY CATES AKA "WORM", DADDY, AND PEEPAW WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1946 IN MCKINNEY TEXAS TO WILLIAM GIBSON CATES AND GENEVA FAYE WALLS. BILLY PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 18, 2018 IN DENISON, TEXAS. 

HE WAS THE DADDY TO CRYSTAL CHILDERS AND HUSBAND EDDIE OF BLUE RIDGE AND DEBBIE ALBERT AND HUSBAND ARON OF BELLS. 

PEEPAW TO KAYLYN AND MEGYN CHILDERS OF BLUE RIDGE. 

BROTHER TO BO CATES, MARY CATES AND DELORES HARRIS. 

BILLY SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE ARMY AS A SERGANT AND COMBAT ENGINEER OF THE BRAVO COMPANY 35TH COMBATE BATTALION IN THE VIETNAM WAR BEFORE BEING HONORABLELY DISCHARGED.HE WAS A TRUE HERO TO HIS COUNTRY BUT AN EVEN BIGGER ONE TO HIS DAUGHTERS. HE RETIRED FROM TEDFORD'S CHEVROLET AFTER 25 YEARS AS THE PARTS MANAGER. 

BILLY WAS A HARD-WORKING MAN WHO WAS A DEVOTED DADDY AND LIVED TO PROVIDED FOR HIS FAMILY. FAMILY WAS EVERYTHING TO HIM. AS STATED BY HIS TWO DAUGHTERS HE WAS THE STRONGEST, TOUGHEST MAN THEY KNEW BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS THE MOST GENTLE AND LOVING DADDY IN THE WORLD.HE LOVED TO SPOIL HIS GIRLS ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDDAUGHTERS AND OF COURSE HIS DOG TANK, HIS SIDEKICK. BILLY LOVED THE OUTDOORS. HE LOVED TO HUNT, FISH AND GO CAMPING. HE ENJOYED COOKING NO ONE COULD SMOKE A BRISKET OR CHICKENS LIKE HIM. HEAVEN GAINED THE GREATEST DADDY A DAUGHTER COULD ASK FOR, BUT AN EVEN GREATER PEEPAW. WE LOVE AND MISS YOU ALREADY DADDY AND PEEPAW. 

BILLY IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, BROTHERS; RONNIE CATES, JAMES CATES AND SISTER BESSIE THOMAS.

VISITATION WILL BE ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018 FROM 6:00 TO 8:00 P.M. AT HURST'S FIELDER BAKER FUNERAL HOME IN FARMERSVILLE, TEXAS. 

CELEBRATION FOR BILLY WILL BE AT 1:00 P.M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018, AT THE HURST'S FIELDER-BAKER FUNERAL HOME IN FARMERSVILLE, TX.OFFICIATING THE SERVICE WILL BE DANIEL WRIGHT AND JIM BOWLING.  INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT WILSON CHAPEL CEMETERY. 

 

 

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