BATES, WILLIE ELMER

                    
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 WILLIE ELMER BATES

The Hamilton Herald-News
Hamilton County, Texas
31 August, 1978

 
Willie Elmer Bates, 64, passed away in the Hamilton County General Hospital after a lengthy illness at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27.
 
Services were held in Riley Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. Gilbert Donald presiding. Burial was in the New I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Hamilton.
 
Mr. Bates lived most of his life in the Hamilton area. He was a trucker and carpenter. He was born in Lampasas County April 2, 1914, the son of C.C. [Charlie Carlton] Bates and Emma [Surilla McCoy] McCory Bates.
 
He was a Baptist and a veteran of World War II. On May 3, 1939, he was married to Pauline Bessie Wagner. Mrs. Bates survives him.
 
Other survivors include his father, C. C. Bates of Hamilton; one son, Wesley Bates of Hamilton; one daughter, Mrs. Sanford (Shirley Ann) Milner of Odessa; five brothers, Paul Bates and Johnny Bates of Hamilton, Wayne Bates of Hurst, Charlie Ray Bates of Gatesville, and J. B. Bates of Llano; four sisters, Mrs. Weta Laverne Spray of Hobbs, N.M., Mrs. Myrtle Kincheloe of Hamilton, Mrs. Alice Faye Waddell of Evant and Mrs. Maudie Baker of Gatesville; and two grandchildren.
 
Pallbearers were Larry Krueger, Johnny Ray Bates, Wesley Wagner, John Kincheloe, M. C. Harris, Robert Don Bates, George Tubbs, and Billy Dale Warren.

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