Graveside services for Virgil Bates, 80, Lecompton, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Lecompton.
Mr. Bates died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000, at Midland Hospice House, Topeka.
He was born May 20, 1920, in Texas County, Mo., the son of Frank Bailey and Edna Elizabeth (Bates) Bates.
Mr. Bates served in the U.S. Army during World War II and, after later worked for Sunflower Ordnance Works and the National Alfalfa Dehydrating Plant before retiring in 1988.
He married Helen Hodson on June 3, 1944, in Lawrence. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Gilbert Wayne, Lecompton, and Larry Leroy, Tecumseh; three daughters, Edna Lee Bates Curran, Bentonville, Ark., and Judy Ann Bryant and Rita Marie Fisher, both of Lawrence; a brother, Quinton Bates, Harrisonville, Mo.; a sister, Ora Goodling, Licking, Mo.; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Friday, October 6, 2000 ljworld
Mr. Bates died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000, at Midland Hospice House, Topeka.
He was born May 20, 1920, in Texas County, Mo., the son of Frank Bailey and Edna Elizabeth (Bates) Bates.
Mr. Bates served in the U.S. Army during World War II and, after later worked for Sunflower Ordnance Works and the National Alfalfa Dehydrating Plant before retiring in 1988.
He married Helen Hodson on June 3, 1944, in Lawrence. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Gilbert Wayne, Lecompton, and Larry Leroy, Tecumseh; three daughters, Edna Lee Bates Curran, Bentonville, Ark., and Judy Ann Bryant and Rita Marie Fisher, both of Lawrence; a brother, Quinton Bates, Harrisonville, Mo.; a sister, Ora Goodling, Licking, Mo.; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Friday, October 6, 2000 ljworld
Graveside services for Virgil Bates, 80, Lecompton, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Maple Grove Cemetery, Lecompton.
Mr. Bates died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000, at Midland Hospice House, Topeka.
He was born May 20, 1920, in Texas County, Mo., the son of Frank Bailey and Edna Elizabeth (Bates) Bates.
Mr. Bates served in the U.S. Army during World War II and, after later worked for Sunflower Ordnance Works and the National Alfalfa Dehydrating Plant before retiring in 1988.
He married Helen Hodson on June 3, 1944, in Lawrence. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Gilbert Wayne, Lecompton, and Larry Leroy, Tecumseh; three daughters, Edna Lee Bates Curran, Bentonville, Ark., and Judy Ann Bryant and Rita Marie Fisher, both of Lawrence; a brother, Quinton Bates, Harrisonville, Mo.; a sister, Ora Goodling, Licking, Mo.; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Friday, October 6, 2000 ljworld
Mr. Bates died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000, at Midland Hospice House, Topeka.
He was born May 20, 1920, in Texas County, Mo., the son of Frank Bailey and Edna Elizabeth (Bates) Bates.
Mr. Bates served in the U.S. Army during World War II and, after later worked for Sunflower Ordnance Works and the National Alfalfa Dehydrating Plant before retiring in 1988.
He married Helen Hodson on June 3, 1944, in Lawrence. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Gilbert Wayne, Lecompton, and Larry Leroy, Tecumseh; three daughters, Edna Lee Bates Curran, Bentonville, Ark., and Judy Ann Bryant and Rita Marie Fisher, both of Lawrence; a brother, Quinton Bates, Harrisonville, Mo.; a sister, Ora Goodling, Licking, Mo.; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Friday, October 6, 2000 ljworld
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