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Submitted: 10/4/21 • Approved: 10/4/21 • Last Updated: 10/7/21 • R461056-G461055-S3
April 5, 1929-April 25, 2001
Daughter
Catastrophes become fantasies in flower, bearing forth the fruits of Eden by Barbara Bates.
Please see Headstone Backside for children’s names
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Barbara Jean Bates, 72, of Amarillo, died Wednesday, April 5, 2001.
Family services were held at Wheeler Cemetery in Wheeler. Arrangements were by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia. Circle.
Mrs. Bates was born in Elk City, Okla., and had been a lifetime resident of Amarillo. She graduated from Texas Woman's University in 1989.
Survivors include four daughters, Ruth Marie Huntley of Littleton, Colo., Joan Carol Bates of Austin, Donna Darrell Walker of Amarillo and Trudy Darlene Van Dyke of San Mateo, Calif.; a son, Danny Pat Bates of Garland; three sisters, Gertrude Jones of Wichita Falls, Vergie Guynes of Borger and Joan Thornberry of Claude; 16 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, April 27, 2001)
Contributed on 10/4/21
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