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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Obituary: Carolyn Elizabeth Cates

The artist and Columbia resident had ties to Ellicott City and Oella.

Carolyn Elizabeth Cates, an artist who once worked out of the Oella Mill, died March 24, according to an obituary in the Baltimore Sun. Cates was 75. Cates lived in Columbia, according to her obituary, but was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk. As an artist she worked in mixed media and had a studio at the Howard County Center for the Arts. “You and my mom (Dotty) will be together in heaven and you can show her how to make something, change something or build something. [Y]ou were always good with that and I will always remember that,” Yasmin Gibson posted on Cates’s obituary page on the Wylie Funeral Home website. A funeral is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Wylie Funeral Home P.A. of Baltimore County, 9200 Liberty Road …

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