Jones Co., TX - Obituaries - Rhodes Bates *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** Rhodes Bates Rhodes Bates, 16, newspaper carrier, was drowned last Friday, 11 June 1937, while on an outing on the Clear Fork of the Brazos river near Fort Griffin. He was one of 12 boys who were given the trip as a reward for excelling in the newspaper sales by their employer, David S. Bennett. Funeral service was held at the First Baptist church with Rev. Dick O'Brien, pastor officiating. Burial was in the Highland cemetery. Rhodes was born in Oklahoma, 18 December 1920 and moved to Stamford with his family in 1925. He had been a newspaper carrier since he was nine years old and did other odd jobs. His death was not the first misfortune the family has known. When Rhodes was two years old his father was killed near Sawyer, OK, by a falling tree. Later Mrs. Bates remarried and her husband, Frank Cheek, died oof a heart ailment in 1929. A brother, Jack, who is enrolled in a CCC camp in California, returned home. Besides the mother and brother, Rhodes is survived by a small sister, Katherine Cheek. Barrow Funeral Home records Stamford, Texas