December 15, 2024, 88, Mount Olive —
Everette Allen Coates, 88, of Mt. Olive passed away Sunday at his residence surrounded by his family. He was the son of the late Edgar Allen Coates and Minnie Coates Potts, and he was married to Joyce Coates. Everette was a member of May’s Chapel Church, where he served as a Deacon, and Sunday School Superintendent, and was the original Candyman. He loved small children and even provided a home to over a hundred children as a foster dad. For many years he coached 14 and 15-year-old Babe Ruth teams and one year won a state championship. He enjoyed watching Yankees baseball and the Carolina Tarheels basketball. Everette took many trips to Chesapeake Bay fishing with his family and friends. During the growing months, he enjoyed producing a garden and giving away the vegetables. He loved cutting grass or riding around the farm on his zero-turn mower. He also enjoyed watching westerns on T.V., but most of all he enjoyed time spent with his family, especially his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
A service of love and remembrance will be held Tuesday evening at 6:00 P.M. in the chapel of Shumate-Faulk Funeral Home with Pastor Jeff Daughtry officiating. The family will receive friends following the service. A committal service will be held on Wednesday at 11:00 A.M. at Wayne Memorial Park.
In addition to his wife of 68 years, Everette is survived by his children, Doug Coates and wife, Lynne, Terry Coates and wife, Julie, Karen Morgan and husband, Dennis, Jaybird Coates and wife, Christa, and Lori Thomas and husband, Chuck; a special son, Craig Rashaw and wife, Maggie; grandchildren, Lee Coates and wife, Kelsey, Dillon Coates, Madelyn Coates and Tyler Sanderson, Georgia Fulghum, Taylor Coates and wife, Kala, Brittany Gose and husband, Anthony, Joshua Morgan and wife, Sherri, Trevor Morgan and wife, Elizabeth, Savanah Jones, and husband, Bradley, Jake Coates, Sally Coates, Aaron Thomas, and Bailey Thomas; and great-grandchildren, Paisley Coates, Carson Coates, Lainey Coates, Addison Coates, Lenni Kate Coates, Kinsley Pearsall, Hadley Gose, Amberly Morgan, Tyler Morgan, Makenna Morgan, Olivia Morgan, Everette Morgan, and Harper Kate Jones.
In addition to his parents, Everette was preceded in death by his sisters, Virginia Mason and Rowena Williams.
Flowers are welcome or donations may be made to May’s Chapel Church, P.O. Box 966, Dudley, NC 28333, or to Ronald McDonald House, 529 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27834
Shumate-Faulk Funeral Home & Crematory is serving the Coates family and online condolences can be directed to www.shumate-faulk.com
