Sept. 15, 1910 – Aug. 15, 2017
Beloved former Sweet Home High music teacher, Myrtle Gates, age 106, passed away on Aug. 15, 2017, in Reston, Va.
Myrtle Rose Gates was born on Sept. 15, 1910 to Charles and Rose Letts in Oklahoma City, Okla.
The family moved to Laurel, Miss., in 1916. In 1933 she graduated from Mississippi State College for Women with a degree in Voice.
She returned to Laurel, taught school and…