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Social Security Death Index

Name: Lorennie B. Bateman
SSN: 348-28-
Last Residence: 61824 Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Born: 30 Jul 1904 Died: 30 Oct 2005
State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (1951-1952 )
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Lorennie Bateman: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
News-Gazette, The (Champaign-Urbana, IL) - Tuesday, November 1, 2005

URBANA - Lorennie Berry Bateman, 101, of Urbana died at 4:32 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 30, 2005) at Meadowbrook Health Services, Urbana. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 S. Philo Road, U. The Rev. Terry P. Harter will officiate. Burial will be in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral chapel.

Mrs. Bateman was born July 30, 1904, in Wayne, Okla., a daughter of H.H. and Rebecca Buckholts Berry. She married H. Paul Bateman on June 8, 1968, in Champaign. He died Aug. 2, 1997. She was preceded in death by three brothers and a sister.

Mrs. Bateman graduated from Oklahoma University High School, Norman, Okla., in 1923. She earned a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1927 from the University of Oklahoma. She earned a master's degree in home economics from Columbia University in New York in 1930. She taught at the Junior Agriculture College in Warner, Okla., for two years and at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Okla., for nine years. She also worked with Cooperative Extension Service, Monticello, for 26 years.

She was a member of American Home Economics, Illinois Home Economics, Omicron Nu, Carle Auxiliary Association, First United Methodist Church in Champaign, Gamma Sigma Delta and the FF Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She also volunteered at Clark Lindsey College.

She and her husband established scholarships for students at the University of Illinois and at Oklahoma Baptist University.