Plunkett, Frances Willene Gates

Francis Willene Gates Plunkett went to be with the Lord on 
Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Funeral services for Frances 
Willene Plunkett, 73, of Longview, will be 2 p.m. Thursday, 
January 18, 2007, at the Spring Hill First Baptist Church, 
with the Reverend Wayne Spanhanks officiating. Entombment 
will follow in Rosewood Park Cemetery, under the direction 
of Rader Funeral Home of Longview. She was born August 24, 
1933, in Rowell, Arkansas, the daughter of Nora Arletha Kemp 
Gates and Argie Don Gates. She was a member of the Spring 
Hill First Baptist Church, the HopeSunday School Class, and 
was a homemaker. For many years, she was a child care 
provider. She loved children; they were her passion. Ms. 
Plunkett was preceded in death by her parents: grandparents, 
Virgie Ann Plunkett Kemp and Dave Kemp, and Amanda Jones 
Gates and William Gates, and infant sister, Reba Jewell Gates. 
She is survived by her children and their spouses, Gary Lynn 
Plunkett and wife, Ginger of Kissimmee, Fla., Larry Don 
Plunkett and wife, Lanita of Sheridan, Ark., Kathy Jean Ivers 
and husband, Tracy of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Linda Gail 
Holbert and husband, Jim of Longview. She is also survived by 
her brother, Billy Don Gates of Bauxite, Ark.; 12 grandchildren; 
and five great-grandchildren. The family requests that memorial 
donations be made to the Spring Hill First Baptist Church 
Building Fund. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. 
this evening, January 17, 2007, at the funeral home. A memorial 
guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/17/2007.