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Albert Richard "Al" Coates

Albert Coates Obituary

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Dr. Albert Richard "Al" Coates, 71, Cedar Rapids, died Thursday, May 19, 2011, at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, S.D.

Survivors include his wife, Sandy, Cedar Rapids; mother, Jane Coates, Edgemont, S.D.; four children, LilaAnn Coates White, Duluth, Minn., Heather Marie Fallis, Moberly, Mo., James Alan Coates, Marion, and Richard Lee Coates, Orlando, Fla.; two brothers, Dr. J. Edwin Coates, Hot Springs, S.D., and Col. Donald Duane Coates, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and ten grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, May 23, at United Church in Edgemont, with the Rev. Peary Wilson officiating. Burial will follow at Edgemont cemetery.

A memorial has been established.

McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Edgemont is in charge of arrangements.

An online guestbook is available at www.mccolleyschapels.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Rapid City Journal on May 21, 2011.

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