OBITUARY: BATES, Bobby Gene - Lincoln County, KY Date: 20 August 2003 Submitted by: Sherri Hall, Registry# href="http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000051 From the Danville Advocate Messenger, 27 Mar 2002 STANFORD -- Services for Bobby Gene Bates, 61, of Halls Gap Estates will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Spurlin Funeral Home by Gary Story. He died Monday at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset. Born March 20, 1941, in Virgie, he was the son of the late Jessie and Irene Burke Bates. He was a steel mill manager and an Army veteran of the Vietnam war. Survivors include his wife, Janice L. Bates; a son, Thomas J. Bates of San Diego, Calif.; a daughter, Lisa E. Bates of Taylor, Mich.; and a brother, Ronald L. Bates of Cookville, Tenn. Pallbearers will be Ronald Bates II, Todd Olson, Jeff Olson, Rhonda Maurer, and Andrew and Rebecca Hudson. Honorary pallbearers are Jo Ann Bowman and Arnold, Lester and Chester Bates. Visitation is 5-9 p.m. today. ********************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************