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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
|name=Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.<ref>It is unclear if Coates' first name is spelled "Earnest" or "Ernest."</ref>
|name=Earnest Guy Coates, Jr.
(Long-time Associated Press correspondent)
(Long-time Associated Press correspondent)
|image=Guy Coates of LA.jpg
|image=Guy Coates of LA.jpg
|death_date=January 12, 2021 (aged 80)
|death_date=January 12, 2021 (aged 80)
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
|death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
|spouse=Name of first wife missing<br>
|spouse=Charlotte Bernice "Shirley" Jolissaint (married 1961)<br>
Jonica M. Coates<br> (married 1961-2021, his death)<br>
Jonica M. Coates<br> (married c. 1981-2021, his death)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Guy Coates, III<br>
Guy Coates, III<br>
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 married for thirty-nine years until his death to Jonica Coates. He had four children from a previous marriage, Guy Coates, III, Jennifer Anne Coates, and Rebecca Riviello and her husband, Albert Joseph Riviello, all of [[Orlando]], [[Florida]], 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, known as Shirley. In 1981, he 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]], [[Florida]], 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/>
==References==
==References==