The body has been brought to the Morris Bros. Funeral Home here, where services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev. Rexford O. Van Court will officiate, assisted by Rev. Paul Graf, pastor of Asbury Methodist Church, Toledo.
Mrs. Bates was born June 10, 1862 in Delphi, Indiana. She had lived in Defiance about 65 years, having come here with her parents at age 15. Her husband died March 9, 1938.
Since the death of Mr. Bates, she had spent most of each winter with her daughter in Toledo and had been there this season for about five weeks. She had been ill about ten days with heart trouble.
Besides Jesse Bates and Mrs. Good, children who survive are daughters, Mrs. Alice Hummel of Toledo and Mrs. Mildred Fleck of Metamora; and son, Alvaro Bates of Washington D. C. There are 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Surviving also are brothers, Charles Kochel of Tippecanoe, Indina and George Kochel of Frankfort, Illinois; and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Dellward of Rochester, Indiana and Mrs. Rose Krutch of Tippecanoe, Indiana.
Father: John W. Blue, Union veteran, and mother Mary Pero (Perreault)
The body has been brought to the Morris Bros. Funeral Home here, where services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev. Rexford O. Van Court will officiate, assisted by Rev. Paul Graf, pastor of Asbury Methodist Church, Toledo.
Mrs. Bates was born June 10, 1862 in Delphi, Indiana. She had lived in Defiance about 65 years, having come here with her parents at age 15. Her husband died March 9, 1938.
Since the death of Mr. Bates, she had spent most of each winter with her daughter in Toledo and had been there this season for about five weeks. She had been ill about ten days with heart trouble.
Besides Jesse Bates and Mrs. Good, children who survive are daughters, Mrs. Alice Hummel of Toledo and Mrs. Mildred Fleck of Metamora; and son, Alvaro Bates of Washington D. C. There are 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Surviving also are brothers, Charles Kochel of Tippecanoe, Indina and George Kochel of Frankfort, Illinois; and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Dellward of Rochester, Indiana and Mrs. Rose Krutch of Tippecanoe, Indiana.
Father: John W. Blue, Union veteran, and mother Mary Pero (Perreault)
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