Myrtle Gates, who taught choral music at SHHS from 1951 to 1976, celebrated her centennial birthday Sept. 15 with a gala party of 70 friends at her residence in Fairfax, Va.
Gates lived in Sweet Home from 1951 until 2002, when she moved to Virginia to be closer to her daughter, Margaret Donivan.
Born Myrtle Rose Letts in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Sept. 15, 1910, Gates’ family moved to Laurel, Miss., when she was 6…