Cates, Sanford Eugene 22 Sep 1988 Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge. If your browser shrinks the full obituary image to fit within the browser window, you may need to click on the image one more time to display its full size. 22 Sep 1988 Please add a message of remembrance to the guestbook for this obituary. Click the button below to add your thoughts. Rodger Desert Hot Springs CA 24 Jan 2018 For our generation, the early baby boomers, the golden age of the 1970s was the period when we discovered ourselves, especially the liberation of sexual expression. Then superimposed upon this scene in the 1980s came the plague of AIDS. It is difficult to explain or understand how this led to the need for spirituality in some form. In Mr. Cates' life this quest led to the Order of Melchisidek. To give you a glimpse of this order, here is one of their precepts: there are seven times seven aethers that form the garments of your soul, radiating in etheric wavelengths that rotate clockwise about you. As you read these obits, consider how desperate these 20, 30 and 40-somethings were to find grace as their demise was inminent. Copyright © 2009. No part of this database may be copied or reproduced without permission.