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September 9, 1917 –  December 28, 2014  Former Gainesville resident, Osa Lee Coats passed away in Huntsville, Alabama Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the age of 97. He was born in Jacksboro, Texas September 9, 1917 to Kit and Eula (Ingram) Coats. On October 1, 1937 he married Laveta Rose in Walter, Oklahoma. Osa worked as an oil field pumper until retiring. While living in Gainesville he was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, January 4th at Meador Funeral Home Chapel in Gainesville with nephew, Wayne Coats officiating. Interment will follow in New Resthaven Cemetery.

Osa Lee Coats is survived by a daughter, Patricia A. Smith of Livingston, Texas; grandson, Farin Smith of Brownsboro, Alabama; granddaughter, Madelyn Pollock of Fair Oaks, California; three great-grandchildren; sisters, Waynell Sims of Iowa Park, Texas and Glennis Blum of Iowa Park, Texas and brother, Dan Coats of Many, Louisiana.. He was preceded in death by his wife and parents.