Richard Wilburn Cates Obituary
It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Richard Wilburn Cates (Durham, North Carolina), who passed away at the age of 75, on September 6, 2025. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family. You may also light a candle in honor of Richard Wilburn Cates or send a beautiful flower arrangement to the funeral service.
As we bid Richard farewell, let us not mourn the absence of his physical form, but rather celebrate the essence of his spirit that lingers in the spaces between moments. For Richard is not truly gone, but merely transformed, his energy intertwined with the fabric of the universe itself, forever dancing among the stars.
He was predeceased by: his parents, Evelyn McFarland Thomas Cates and Clyde Hogan Cates.
