Cindy Gates

Funeral services for Cindy Ann Marcotte Gates of Baton Rouge, LA will take place at the St. Paul Catholic Church of Mansura on Tuesday October 1, 2013, beginning at 10:00 am with Father Irion St Romain officiating. Visitation will take place Monday, September 30, 2013 from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm with a wake service to begin at 7:00 pm.at Escud Funeral Home of Mansura. The funeral home will reopen Tuesday morning at 8:00 am until departing for church services. Burial will follow in the St. Paul Catholic Church Cemetery.
Cindy Ann Marcotte Gates, age 56 passed away on September 28, 2013 from ovarian cancer at The Carpenter House of Baton Rouge. She was born Cindy Ann Marcotte, on June 14th 1957 in Panama City FL to Lamar and Marguerite Marcotte. She attended Mansura High School where she graduated in 1975. She then attended Northwestern State University and graduated in 1979 as an English teacher and Librarian. She taught from 1979 to 2011 and then retired. She was married in 1990 to David Gates and remained married for 8 years. Cindy had no children.
She was preceded in death by her husband David Gates and her mother, Marguerite Scallan Marcotte. She is survived by her father Lamar Marcotte brother, Gregory Marcotte niece, Jena Keenan and her nieces mother, Kathy Keenan.
Services and arrangements are under the direction of Escud Funeral Home.