Winn Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Bates, Edith Parker April 12, 1978 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Greggory E. Davies gedavies@winnfield.net February 18, 2008, 10:46 pm April 19, 1978 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Mrs. Bates Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Parker Bates, 54, of Gibsland, formerly of Winnfield, were held at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church of Winnfield. Officiating were Revs. G. A. Mangun, Mike Hudspeth, Fred Foster, J. R. Weidner, and Billy White. Burial was in Garden of Memories Cemetery here under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield. Mrs. Bates died Wednesday, April 12, 1978 at 3:07 p.m. in Bienville General Hospital at Arcadia after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Bates was a member of the First Pentecostal Church of Gibsland. Survivors include her husband, Rev. Clarence D. Bates of Gibsland; four sons, Delle Bates of Shreveport, George Bates of Jackson, Miss.; Tom Paul Bates of Alexandria, and Garold Bates of Gibsland; a daughter, Mrs. Rhonda Russell of Winnfield; her brother, Benny Parker of Longville, Miss.; and her sister, Helen Williams of Oberlin, La.; and seven grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/winn/obits/b/bates881gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb