Alice Marie Bates (-2009)

BATES, BUFFINGTON, SLEPER, CERVENE, BARTLESON, ROTHS, WOLFE, AUGUSTUS, MCGUIRE, DUNMIRE, CAUDLE, LONNING, SCHAEFER, BRUNSON, GRIMM

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 5/12/2009 at 22:47:13

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

Alice Marie Bates, 74, went to be with our Lord Saturday, May 2, 2009, at home in Jewell surrounded by her family, after a yearlong battle with cancer. A memorial for Alice will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 16, at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Jewell.

Alice was the fourth child of a family of 10 born to Orval and Gertie (Sleper) Buffington. She spent her younger years on a farm near the small town of Crystal Lake. In her early adult years, she worked at Winnebago, where she learned to sew. She later became an expert seamstress and operated a thriving custom upholstery shop in her home in Moingona, where she and her husband resided for 30 years. She enjoyed the love of her family and especially the closeness of her children. During the final year of her life, she enjoyed the visits and Christian fellowship of her church friends and family.

She is survived by her three children, Donna Cervene, Douglas Bartleson and Robin Roths, all of Jewell; her stepchildren, Jerry Bates, of Florida, Ava Wolfe, of Kansas, Twilene Augustus, of Kansas, and Sheila McGuire, of Davenport; grandchildren, Dawn Dunmire, Jayson Caudle, Adam McGuire and Jade McGuire; five great- grandchildren; as well as her eight siblings, Lois Lonning, Marlyn Buffington, John Buffington, Iola Schaefer, Forrest Buffington, Beryl Buffington, Sandra Brunson and Sharon Grimm.

She was preceded in death by her husbands; her parents; and her oldest brother, Lee.

Cremation Society of Eastern Central Western Iowa is assisting the family. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.iowacremation.com under Obituaries.

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