BATES
Willie Edward 2342 Lu Field. Survived by wife, Mrs. Sadie Bates, Dallas; sons, Onnie, Carrollton; Lester lee, William E., Carl Ray, Quinton, Quincy and Stanley Bates, all of Dallas; daughters, Mrs. A. W. Shewmake, Mesquite; Mrs. W. A. McCutcheon, Dallas, and Mrs. W. B. Maden of California; brother, Charles S. Bates, Ennis; sister, Mrs. Georgia Lette, Missouri; 26 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren. Services Friday 2:30 p.m. Reeder Road Baptist Church, Rev. Ralph Upchurch, Rev. George Holden and Rev. Tracy officiating. Interment farmers Branch Cemetery. Pallbearers: Alvin Hodge, Jr. Howard  Hodge, Bobby Wayne Putnam, Floyd E. Bates, Roy Curtis, Kerrmette A. Hodge
RHOTON FUNERAL HOME, Carrollton

The Dallas Morning News - October 1, 1959
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams