(In Memory) Acworth, GA – Barbara Lynn Cates, age 61, of Acworth, Georgia passed away on Thursday, October 15, 2015. Barbara was one of four girls born to Roy and Barbara Joan McNiece on November 30, 1953 in Waukegan, Illinois. She had worked as a quality supervisor for the plastic injection molding company, Nypro Atlanta. Barbara truly loved her family – they were her whole life. She had a loving husband, Joseph, beautiful children, Christina, Jennifer, Matthew, Amanda, Derek, and Brian, and her precious grand and great-grandbabies. She enjoyed crafts, reading, and painting in her spare time. She also enjoyed volunteering for Furkids, an animal shelter thriftstore. Barbara Lynn Cates is preceded by her father, Roy Wallace McNiece and sisters, Deloris Outlaw, Sandra Lee Snowden, and Cheryl Jo Lambert. She is survived by her husband, Joseph Cates; mother, Barbara Etchell Nolen of Wildwood, Florida; children, Christina Lynn Gann of Newbern, North Carolina, Jennifer Marie Hawkins and her husband, Chris, of White, Georgia, Matthew Wallace Gann of Acworth, Amanda Lee Snowden of Acworth, Georgia, Derek Charles Cates of Acworth, and Brian Christopher Messenger and his wife, Amanda, of Fort Worth, Texas; sister, Debbie Egger and her husband, Todd, of Wildwood, Florida; 19 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She will be cremated under the care of Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home in Kennesaw. A Private Celebration of Life will be held.
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