MILL CREEK -- Services for Matthew "Matt" Bates, 26, will be at 2 p.m. today at Mill Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev. Jerry George officiating. Interment will be at Troy Cemetery under the direction of Clark Funeral Home.
Bates was born Nov. 20, 1973, at Detroit. He died April 7, 2000, in Sulphur following an auto accident.
Reared in Detroit, moved to Sulphur and worked at Wal-Mart and Hillcrest Nursing Home in Tishomingo.
Survivors include his wife, the former Jeanetta Elrod; a daughter, Brooke; and son, Joseph, all of the home; his mother, Minnie Bates, Hugo; and grandfather, J.R. Bates, Tishomingo.
Bearers will be Grady Samis, Paul and James Miller, Robby, Bobby and Tommy Haney. Honorary bearers are Jay Young, Wes Wesley and John Harris.
Donations for the family may be made to Deborah Sweatt at Hillcrest Nursing Home.
MILL CREEK -- Services for Matthew "Matt" Bates, 26, will be at 2 p.m. today at Mill Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev. Jerry George officiating. Interment will be at Troy Cemetery under the direction of Clark Funeral Home.
Bates was born Nov. 20, 1973, at Detroit. He died April 7, 2000, in Sulphur following an auto accident.
Reared in Detroit, moved to Sulphur and worked at Wal-Mart and Hillcrest Nursing Home in Tishomingo.
Survivors include his wife, the former Jeanetta Elrod; a daughter, Brooke; and son, Joseph, all of the home; his mother, Minnie Bates, Hugo; and grandfather, J.R. Bates, Tishomingo.
Bearers will be Grady Samis, Paul and James Miller, Robby, Bobby and Tommy Haney. Honorary bearers are Jay Young, Wes Wesley and John Harris.
Donations for the family may be made to Deborah Sweatt at Hillcrest Nursing Home.
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