Obituary of Suzanne Oates

Services, with military honors, for Suzanne Gaut Oates, 58, Venus, will be at 2:00 pm Saturday, May 14, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel, Overton with Reverend Fred Parsons officiating. Burial will be in Ebenezer Cemetery near Arp. Suzanne died Monday, May 9, 2011, at her residence. She was born May 2, 1953, in Pasadena to George R. Gaut and Carol Kidd Gaut. She is a veteran of the US Army and she was a security guard for the Glenrose Power Plant.  Previous to that, she worked for the United States Postal Service. Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Joshua and Kristine Koder, Naples, and Jonathan and Sarah Koder, Centennial, Colorado; her father and step-mother, George 'Dick' and Janet S. Gaut, Kirkland, Arizona; two sisters, Cindy Simmons, Plano, and Janet C. Gaut, Venus; a nephew, Leon Corbett; nieces, Erin Corbett Guzman and Janah Simmons Hammond; three grandsons, Wesley Koder, Justin Koder, and Landon Koder; special friends, Harley and Carolyn Pinon. Honorary Pallbearers will be Joshua Koder, Jonathan Koder, Wesley Koder and Justin Koder.