Bates, Kathrina 1884-1963

BATES, BUCHANAN, WHITE, OLSON, HOWELL, NELSON, JOLLEY, CROSS, THOMPSON

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Date: 10/22/2009 at 09:32:48

Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; Feb. 7, 1963

MRS. ROY BATES SUCCUMBS TUESDAY TO LONG ILLNESS

Mrs. Kathrina Buchanan Bates, 78, wife of longtime Grinnell businessman Roy E. Bates, succumbed Tuesday evening at a local hospital following an extended illness.

Funeral services are to be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the First Congregational church with the Rev. Ralph Beebe of the Mayflower Home officiating. Organist will be Norman Goodbrod.

Pallbearers will be C.H. Dimit, Stanley Preston, G.L. Duke, Dr. A.W. Brock, Mel Van Wechel, and C.N. James. Honorary pallbearers will be R.S. Kinsey, Carl Child, E.L. York, Russell Baggs, Dr. F.E. Munger, and Fred Ramsey.

Friends may call at the James-Schalinske Funeral Home until 9 a.m. Friday. Interment will be in Hazelwood cemetery.

Born at Victor on May 27, 1884, she was the daughter of Thomas Hamilton and Rosa White Buchanan. She resided in that community until her parents moved to Grinnell in January of 1895. She graduated from Grinnell high school in 1901, attended Grinnell College, Temple University in Philadelphia, and Drake University, where she graduated with the class of 1904.

After graduation, she taught kindergarten in the Des Moines school system and in Cooper school in Grinnell until her marriage to Roy E. Bates on May 29, 1907.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. William H. (Mary) Olson of Michigan City, Ind.; Mrs. I.R. (Barbara) Howell of Grinnell; Mrs. Harry A. (Jean) Nelson of Westfield, N.J.; and Mrs. Ray (Joy) Jolley of Oskaloosa; 11 grandchildren; and one great grandson. Their only son died at birth in May, 1920.

Mrs. Bates joined her husband in the drug business here during World War I and was a partner in the firm of Bates Flowers until she was forced to retire because of ill health.

Mrs. Bates was a charter member of the Levart and Soroptimist clubs, and was a member of the First Congregational church where she served for many years as superintendent of the Primary department. She was also a member of the Beulah Chapter No. 47, Order of Easter Star, and the Ladies Guild of Za-Ga-Zig Unit of Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a foster sister, Mary Frances Cross of Grinnell; two sisters, Ethleen Thompson of San Diego, Calif., and Fannie R. Buchanan of Grinnell; a brother, Clarence Buchanan of Orchard, Colo.; and her son.