Obituaries: Clayton Bates, 1945, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 4, 1945 Winn Parish Enterprise

Clayton Bates, War I Veteran, Succumbed Dec. 29

Funeral services for Clayton Bates, World War One Veteran, who died at a
Winnfield clinic, December 38, 1944, were held at Bethlehem Church Friday,
December 29, at 3 o'clock.  Rev. W. D. McDaniel had charge of the services.

Mr. Bates, a native of the Bethlehem Community, had been a patient at the
Veterans' hospital, Alexandria, La., and Chicago, Ill., for the past two or
three years.

He was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evie Carter Bates; one son, G. C. Bates, Jr., who
is surviving in the U. S. Navy in Florida; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Bates, Route 4, Winnfield; Sgt. Clarence Bates and Henry Bates, serving in the
Army somewhere overseas; four sisters, Mrs. Marshall Canerday, Mrs. Curtis
Key, and Mrs. Murray Riffe of Route 4, Winnfield, and a sister who resides in
Castor.