Thelma Marie Gates, age 94 of Kenosha, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 5, 2020 at Hospice Alliance\/Hospice House.<\/p>\n
Born in Bristol, Kenosha County on November 10, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Roger Dewey and Clara Marie (Krueger) Jackson. She attended Kenosha County schools and was a graduate of Wilmot High School.<\/p>\n
On September 9, 1944 at Zion Lutheran Church, Bristol, she was united in marriage to Walter G. Gates.\u00a0 Her loving husband passed away in July of 1993.<\/p>\n
She was a member of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church. Thelma played the organ and piano for almost 70 years; playing at Zion Lutheran Church in Bristol and Peace Lutheran Church in Wilmot. She also played for many weddings, funerals and her children\u2019s school events. She was a member of the Mall Walkers and attended many chili dumps, card parties and Christmas parties.<\/p>\n
Thelma was a dedicated wife and mother. She was a very talented seamstress where she used her skills to make clothes for her daughters, and bridesmaid and party dresses for others.<\/p>\n
She is survived by her children, Judith Flood, Susan Zirbel, Lawrence (Kathy) Gates, Beverly (Jeff) Bulik and John (Cindy) Gates; her eleven grandchildren, Shawn, Melissa, Heather, Mike, Nick, Sarah, Caroline, Andy, Ben, Allyson and Nicole; her eleven great grandchildren, Deacon, Rayna, Dakota, Logan, Abigail, Arianna, Elianna, Oliver, Ada, Lyric and Kyle; and many loving nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Eugene and Edward Jackson; her sisters-in-law, Larraine and Jeanine; her nephew, Eugene Jackson, Jr.; her sons-in-law, Roger Flood and Robert Zirbel; and a great grandchild at birth, Mason.<\/p>\n
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Funeral Services honoring Thelma\u2019s life will be held on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. at Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 5927 37th<\/sup> Avenue. Interment will follow in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park. A visitation for Thelma will be held at the church on Friday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service.<\/p>\n In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrances to Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church would be appreciated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thelma Marie Gates, age 94 of Kenosha, passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 5, 2020 at Hospice Alliance\/Hospice House. Born in Bristol, Kenosha County on November 10, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Roger Dewey and Clara Marie (Krueger) Jackson. She attended Kenosha<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service-location":[],"class_list":["post-13109","obituary","type-obituary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituary"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-location?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}