BATES, Florence M.: Died 1974
BATES, BREM, BAILEY, HIRD, HELFENSTINE, CARLSON
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Date: 8/17/2018 at 06:01:46
The Fairfield Ledger
Mon., Aug. 12, 1974
Fairfield, IADeath Takes Mrs. Bates
BIRMINGHAM - Florence M. Bates, 86, died Sunday evening in Van Buren Memorial Hospital at Keosauqua after suffering a heart attack in her home at Birmingham.
The body is at the Burch Funeral Home in Birmingham where last rites are pending.
Florence M. Bates was born Aug. 2, 1888, in Jefferson County. She was the daughter of James and Emma Brem Bailey. She was married Oct. 21, 1908, in Fairfield to Clarence Bates who survives.
Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Bernice Hird, Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Henrietta Helfenstine, Peoria, Arizona; six grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Irene Carlson, Fairfield.
She was preceded in death by four brothers and five sisters. Mrs. Bates was a member of the Birmingham Free Methodist Church.
Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield. Friends may call at the Burch Funeral Home in Birmingham.
(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)
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