The Philadelphia Inquirer; Friday, February 15, 2005, Section B Page 8:
"Anthony Bateman, lawyer, history lover
By Gayle Ronan Sims - Inquirer Staff Writer
Anthony Gilbert Bateman Sr., 64, former Philadelphia assistant district attorney, 1983 mayoral candidate, lawyer, and eighth-generation Irish Catholic Philadelphian who treasured history and his nine children, died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Monday at his beloved 250 year-old Germantown home.
Born July 7, 1940, in Atlantic City, Mr. Bateman was the youngest of seven children. He graduated in 1958 from North Catholic High School, earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Villanova University in 1962, and received a law degree in 1965 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bateman began his career in 1966 as an assistant district attorney in the homicide division under now-Sen. Arlen Specter. Ten years later, he began a lifelong private practice.
Several times in his career, Mr. Bateman's shenanigans captured headlines. In 1968, after winning a jury trial in Judge Juanita Kidd Stout's courtroom, the judge noticed Mr. Bateman's first wife, Ellen, pregnant and weeks overdue with their third child. Stout jokingly suggested that Mr. Bateman seek a writ of habeas corpus for the baby. A bemused Mr. Bateman applied for the writ in official-sounding tones. Within hours, Anthony Bateman, Jr. was born.
'My sweet dad was a ham,' daughter Ann-Louise Oliphant said. 'He loved to tell stories about the Battle of Germantown as if it happened yesterday.
'He loved Germantown because he could walk in the places where George Washington walked, and lived in the buildings of that time,' Oliphant said.
In recent years, Mr. Bateman seriously studied Latin. 'He often used the phrase 'Sic transit gloria mundi,' which means 'Thus passes the glory of this world,' she said, '(My) father used it to convey a sense of nostalgia for the past and as a way to comprehend the many losses ... that life holds for all of us.'
In addition to his daughter and wife, Linda Wolfe Bateman, Mr. Bateman is survived by daughters Maria, Ellen and Margaret; sons Anthony Jr., John, Michael, Matthew and Maurice; four grandchildren; four sisters; and a brother, the comedian known as Henry Gibson, known for his work on television's Laugh-In and in movies and cartoons. He is also survived by his first wife. Another brother preceded him in death.
A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 109 E. Price St., Germantown. Burial will be in Old Cathedral Cemetery, 49th Street and Lancaster Avenue."
"Anthony Bateman, lawyer, history lover
By Gayle Ronan Sims - Inquirer Staff Writer
Anthony Gilbert Bateman Sr., 64, former Philadelphia assistant district attorney, 1983 mayoral candidate, lawyer, and eighth-generation Irish Catholic Philadelphian who treasured history and his nine children, died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Monday at his beloved 250 year-old Germantown home.
Born July 7, 1940, in Atlantic City, Mr. Bateman was the youngest of seven children. He graduated in 1958 from North Catholic High School, earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Villanova University in 1962, and received a law degree in 1965 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bateman began his career in 1966 as an assistant district attorney in the homicide division under now-Sen. Arlen Specter. Ten years later, he began a lifelong private practice.
Several times in his career, Mr. Bateman's shenanigans captured headlines. In 1968, after winning a jury trial in Judge Juanita Kidd Stout's courtroom, the judge noticed Mr. Bateman's first wife, Ellen, pregnant and weeks overdue with their third child. Stout jokingly suggested that Mr. Bateman seek a writ of habeas corpus for the baby. A bemused Mr. Bateman applied for the writ in official-sounding tones. Within hours, Anthony Bateman, Jr. was born.
'My sweet dad was a ham,' daughter Ann-Louise Oliphant said. 'He loved to tell stories about the Battle of Germantown as if it happened yesterday.
'He loved Germantown because he could walk in the places where George Washington walked, and lived in the buildings of that time,' Oliphant said.
In recent years, Mr. Bateman seriously studied Latin. 'He often used the phrase 'Sic transit gloria mundi,' which means 'Thus passes the glory of this world,' she said, '(My) father used it to convey a sense of nostalgia for the past and as a way to comprehend the many losses ... that life holds for all of us.'
In addition to his daughter and wife, Linda Wolfe Bateman, Mr. Bateman is survived by daughters Maria, Ellen and Margaret; sons Anthony Jr., John, Michael, Matthew and Maurice; four grandchildren; four sisters; and a brother, the comedian known as Henry Gibson, known for his work on television's Laugh-In and in movies and cartoons. He is also survived by his first wife. Another brother preceded him in death.
A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 109 E. Price St., Germantown. Burial will be in Old Cathedral Cemetery, 49th Street and Lancaster Avenue."
The Philadelphia Inquirer; Friday, February 15, 2005, Section B Page 8:
"Anthony Bateman, lawyer, history lover
By Gayle Ronan Sims - Inquirer Staff Writer
Anthony Gilbert Bateman Sr., 64, former Philadelphia assistant district attorney, 1983 mayoral candidate, lawyer, and eighth-generation Irish Catholic Philadelphian who treasured history and his nine children, died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Monday at his beloved 250 year-old Germantown home.
Born July 7, 1940, in Atlantic City, Mr. Bateman was the youngest of seven children. He graduated in 1958 from North Catholic High School, earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Villanova University in 1962, and received a law degree in 1965 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bateman began his career in 1966 as an assistant district attorney in the homicide division under now-Sen. Arlen Specter. Ten years later, he began a lifelong private practice.
Several times in his career, Mr. Bateman's shenanigans captured headlines. In 1968, after winning a jury trial in Judge Juanita Kidd Stout's courtroom, the judge noticed Mr. Bateman's first wife, Ellen, pregnant and weeks overdue with their third child. Stout jokingly suggested that Mr. Bateman seek a writ of habeas corpus for the baby. A bemused Mr. Bateman applied for the writ in official-sounding tones. Within hours, Anthony Bateman, Jr. was born.
'My sweet dad was a ham,' daughter Ann-Louise Oliphant said. 'He loved to tell stories about the Battle of Germantown as if it happened yesterday.
'He loved Germantown because he could walk in the places where George Washington walked, and lived in the buildings of that time,' Oliphant said.
In recent years, Mr. Bateman seriously studied Latin. 'He often used the phrase 'Sic transit gloria mundi,' which means 'Thus passes the glory of this world,' she said, '(My) father used it to convey a sense of nostalgia for the past and as a way to comprehend the many losses ... that life holds for all of us.'
In addition to his daughter and wife, Linda Wolfe Bateman, Mr. Bateman is survived by daughters Maria, Ellen and Margaret; sons Anthony Jr., John, Michael, Matthew and Maurice; four grandchildren; four sisters; and a brother, the comedian known as Henry Gibson, known for his work on television's Laugh-In and in movies and cartoons. He is also survived by his first wife. Another brother preceded him in death.
A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 109 E. Price St., Germantown. Burial will be in Old Cathedral Cemetery, 49th Street and Lancaster Avenue."
"Anthony Bateman, lawyer, history lover
By Gayle Ronan Sims - Inquirer Staff Writer
Anthony Gilbert Bateman Sr., 64, former Philadelphia assistant district attorney, 1983 mayoral candidate, lawyer, and eighth-generation Irish Catholic Philadelphian who treasured history and his nine children, died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Monday at his beloved 250 year-old Germantown home.
Born July 7, 1940, in Atlantic City, Mr. Bateman was the youngest of seven children. He graduated in 1958 from North Catholic High School, earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Villanova University in 1962, and received a law degree in 1965 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bateman began his career in 1966 as an assistant district attorney in the homicide division under now-Sen. Arlen Specter. Ten years later, he began a lifelong private practice.
Several times in his career, Mr. Bateman's shenanigans captured headlines. In 1968, after winning a jury trial in Judge Juanita Kidd Stout's courtroom, the judge noticed Mr. Bateman's first wife, Ellen, pregnant and weeks overdue with their third child. Stout jokingly suggested that Mr. Bateman seek a writ of habeas corpus for the baby. A bemused Mr. Bateman applied for the writ in official-sounding tones. Within hours, Anthony Bateman, Jr. was born.
'My sweet dad was a ham,' daughter Ann-Louise Oliphant said. 'He loved to tell stories about the Battle of Germantown as if it happened yesterday.
'He loved Germantown because he could walk in the places where George Washington walked, and lived in the buildings of that time,' Oliphant said.
In recent years, Mr. Bateman seriously studied Latin. 'He often used the phrase 'Sic transit gloria mundi,' which means 'Thus passes the glory of this world,' she said, '(My) father used it to convey a sense of nostalgia for the past and as a way to comprehend the many losses ... that life holds for all of us.'
In addition to his daughter and wife, Linda Wolfe Bateman, Mr. Bateman is survived by daughters Maria, Ellen and Margaret; sons Anthony Jr., John, Michael, Matthew and Maurice; four grandchildren; four sisters; and a brother, the comedian known as Henry Gibson, known for his work on television's Laugh-In and in movies and cartoons. He is also survived by his first wife. Another brother preceded him in death.
A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 109 E. Price St., Germantown. Burial will be in Old Cathedral Cemetery, 49th Street and Lancaster Avenue."
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