TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for BATES, LIANA   

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Nov. 7 to Nov. 8, 2013

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BATES, LIANA 

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Liana Bates, 59, a resident of Ponca City, Okla., passed away Monday, Nov. 4, 
2013, at Via Christi Village. 

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Grayhorse Village Chapel with the 
Rev. Dee Wellington Bright Sr. of Grace Episcopal Church officiating. 

Burial will be in Fairfax Cemetery in Fairfax, Okla. 

She is survived by her two daughters, Tiana Rodgers Aucoin and husband, Kervin, 
of Cameron, N.C., and Jessica Rodgers, of Columbus, Ohio; granddaughters, 
Madeline Rodgers Godsey, Natalie Aucoin and Charlotte Aucoin, of Cameron, N.C.; 
father, Joseph D. Bates; sisters, Teresa Bates Rutherford and husband, Richard, 
of Ponca City, Okla., Stacy Bates Laskey and husband, Steve, of Tulsa, Okla., 
Paige Fronkier Guidry and husband, James, of Houston, Texas, and Michele 
Fronkier; and many nieces and grand-nieces. 

She was preceded in death by her mother, Phyllis Fronkier; maternal 
grandparents, Lorene (Gideon) and Floyd Pickett; paternal grandparents, Mae 
(Hinkle) and Joseph Bates, who was an original allottee of the Osage Nation. 

Liana was born Oct. 9, 1954, to Joseph D. Bates and the late Phyllis Mauree 
Pickett Bates in Ponca City, Okla. She was raised in Ponca City. She graduated 
from Dickinson High School in Dickinson, Texas, in 1972. In May of 1981, she 
graduated with her associate's degree from Northern Oklahoma College. After 
graduation she attended Central State University in Edmond and graduated with 
her bachelor's in business human resources in May of 1983. 

She married Mark R. Rodgers in Gainsville, Texas. Later they moved to Houma, 
where they raised their two daughters. 
In 2003, she returned to Ponca City and continued to live there until her 
illness required her to receive full time care. Liana was proud of her Osage 
heritage and always enjoyed participating in tribal functions with her family. 
She was also an avid Harley-Davidson enthusiast and loved to ride her Sportster 
in the countryside. 

Trout Funeral Home in Ponca City, Okla., is in charge of arrangements. 

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