MacFarlane Lafferty Cates Jr.

Margie, Kitta, And family, I send you my heartfelt sympathies and love, I know you are grieving but” if we did not love we would not grieve”I will continue to pray for Mack’s Peace and your comfort

Please except my deepest sympathies, May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.

Mac was a great businessman and a true philanthropist for his community, State and Nation. he was one of "the Greatest Generation" in our midst.
He will be missed!
My thoughts and prayers are with the family during this time of their loss. He will not be forgotten, rest well Mac!

Sterling Anderson

An honor to have known him as well as his humor

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

Mr. Cates was an icon of the textile business. He was southern born and Princeton educated. He would tell stories and recite poetry that made him a kind of South Carolinian Winston Churchill. He was full of wit and wisdom, the latter of which prepared him for what he called “fishing around the bend of the stream”. Good hunting and catching, Mr Cates.