Earl Cates: A life of business, luck, renters, and goats

  • Earl Cates shows off his images of his family as he walks through his house. Photos by DeAnna Maddox
    Earl Cates shows off his images of his family as he walks through his house. Photos by DeAnna Maddox
  • Earl Cates: A life of business, luck, renters, and goats
    Earl Cates: A life of business, luck, renters, and goats

    CUSHING - Born in 1926, Earl Cates is a member of the Greatest Generation alongside Mother Theresa, Ronald Reagan, and Jesse Owens. He celebrated his 98th birthday Saturday, Sept. 14 with friends, family, and goats.

    Cates lives just down the road from his childhood home in a subdivision that he developed into an RV park out on what is Cates Drive, which of course was named after him. He spends much…