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'''Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.''', known as '''Guy Coates''' (June 28, 1940 &ndash; January 12, 2021), was a [[journalist]] a 40-year correspondent for the [[Associated Press]] in his native [[Louisiana]].<ref>Ernest Coates (Guy) - Baton Rouge, LA Background Report at MyLife.com, accessed May 11, 2021.</ref>

'''Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.''', known as '''Guy Coates''' (June 28, 1940 &ndash; January 12, 2021), was a [[journalist]] a 40-year correspondent for the [[Associated Press]] in his native [[Louisiana]].<ref>Earnest Coates (Guy) - Baton Rouge, LA Background Report at MyLife.com, accessed May 11, 2021.</ref>

Coates was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] to Guy, Sr. (1909-1998}, and Winnie ee Coates (1916-1981), who operated a doughnut shop. He had an older sister, Dorothy Coates Talley (1934-2012). Coates graduated from what is now the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]]. He worked first for ''The Corpus Christi ([[Texas]]) Caller Times,''  then ''The Shreveport Times,'' and the [[CBS]] television affiliates KNOE in Monroe and KSLA in [[Shreveport]]. He joined the AP in [[New Orleans]] in 1968; five years later he was named the AP bureau chief at the AP's bureau at the state Capitol in [[Baton Rouge]]. He covered the activities of six Louisiana [[governor]], [[Jimmie Davis]], [[John J. McKeithen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], [[David C. Treen]], [[Buddy Roemer]], and [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/>  

Coates was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] to Guy, Sr. (1909-1998}, and Winnie ee Coates (1916-1981), who operated a doughnut shop. He had an older sister, Dorothy Coates Talley (1934-2012). Coates graduated from what is now the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]]. He worked first for ''The Corpus Christi ([[Texas]]) Caller Times,''  then ''The Shreveport Times,'' and the [[CBS]] television affiliates KNOE in Monroe and KSLA in [[Shreveport]]. He joined the AP in [[New Orleans]] in 1968; five years later he was named the AP bureau chief at the AP's bureau at the state Capitol in [[Baton Rouge]]. He covered the activities of six Louisiana [[governor]], [[Jimmie Davis]], [[John J. McKeithen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], [[David C. Treen]], [[Buddy Roemer]], and [[Mike Foster]].<ref name=obit/>  

Jeremy James Alford (born 1978), the editor and publisher of ''LaPolitics Weekly'' and ''The Tracker,'' the leading trade publications for elected officials, campaign professionals, and donors in Louisiana,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/jeremy-alford/e6967838166|title=James Alford|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}</ref> said that Coates "had cut his teeth during the golden, grizzled age of American journalism. When he was a cub reporter, many of his colleagues stashed a pine (or two) of whiskey in their desks or in their pockets (or both)."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226801791/earnest-guy-coates|title=Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}</ref>

Jeremy James Alford (born 1978), the editor and publisher of ''LaPolitics Weekly'' and ''The Tracker,'' the leading trade publications for elected officials, campaign professionals, and donors in Louisiana,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/jeremy-alford/e6967838166|title=James Alford|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}</ref> said that Coates "had cut his teeth during the golden, grizzled age of American journalism. When he was a cub reporter, many of his colleagues stashed a pine (or two) of whiskey in their desks or in their pockets (or both)."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226801791/earnest-guy-coates|title=Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}</ref>

Coates was first married in 1961 in Monroe to the former Charlotte Bernice Jolissaint, also known known as Shirley. She is a real estate agent in Altamonte Springs, near [[Orlando]], [[Florida]]. In 1981, Coates wed Jonica Coates. From the first marriage, he had four children, Guy Coates, III, Jennifer Anne Coates, and Rebecca Riviello and her husband, Albert Joseph Riviello, all of Orlando, and Wilma L. Bell and her husband, Timothy of Sugar Hill, [[Georgia]]. He had four grandchildren: Leah, Blaine and Grace Bell and Ryan Riviello. There was no funeral service because his death came near the peak of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic.<ref name=obit/>

Coates was first married in 1961 in Monroe to the former Charlotte Bernice Jolissaint, also known known as Shirley. She is a daughter of Richard C. Jolissaint and the former Wilma B. Ragland. The first Mrs. Coates is a real estate agent in Altamonte Springs, near [[Orlando]], [[Florida]]. In 1981, Coates wed Jonica Coates. From the first marriage, he had four children, Guy Coates, III, Jennifer Anne Coates, and Rebecca Riviello and her husband, Albert Joseph Riviello, all of Orlando, and Wilma L. Bell and her husband, Timothy of Sugar Hill, [[Georgia]]. He had four grandchildren: Leah, Blaine and Grace Bell and Ryan Riviello. There was no funeral service because his death came near the peak of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic.<ref name=obit/>

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