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Janet Cates Obituary

Janet Cates, who in 1985 was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts including racketeering, conspiracy and cocaine distribution, and sentenced to 10 years in prison, died Saturday when her car veered across the center line on Card Sound Road in the Keys, and hit a tree past midnight, her mother Louise Hall said. Cates had since become an aesthetician. She had been on her way to Fort Lauderdale to participate in a beauty convention.

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Published by The Palm Beach Post from Nov. 9, 2009 to Jan. 14, 2010.

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Jennifer Cates

January 12, 2019

Think of you often, see you on the other side!

Angel Rodriguez

May 28, 2012

You are missed by me. I am an old past. I am one that became very good friends with you when we were in school. I am the one that will pray for you every day. I am Angel Ignacio Rodriguez ....class of 71.

Linda Park

February 21, 2012

You are missed, my dearest friend and sister always. Linda Park

December 27, 2009

My condolences to your family. May God grant you the peace that excels all thoughts and guard your hearts (Philip.4:7). Your family and friends are in my prayers.

J. & M. Ingram-Brown

December 19, 2009

Our condolences to the family and friends of Janet Cates. May "the God of all comfort and the Father of tender mercies" provide solace at this difficult time. With deepest sympathy.

Amy Higgins-Margalli

November 9, 2009

My heart is so heavy. I cannot believe my beautiful Janet is gone. She took so much pride and was so excited to make others more beautiful on the outside, but her beauty on the inside could never be matched because the tans would eventually fade, and the lashes would eventually fall off. She was permanently beautiful inside and out. Today I am greiving not just for myself but for the family she has left behind and the friends who she attracted like moths to a flame with her laugh and her positivity and again, her beauty. I was so blessed to have been able to be part of Janet's world for a short time and I will never forget the friendship and laughs we shared. My love, thoughts, and prayers are with her family and her friends.

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