Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bates, Franklin O. 1954
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, May 6, 1954


Franklin O. Bates, 31, of Lake Odessa and veteran of World War II, died 
Wednesday morning at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital.  He had been 
hospitalized for 16 days and had undergone surgery ten days ago.

He was born September 20, 1922, in Saginaw county the son of Frank and Hazel 
Bates.  He was an employee of the Fisher Body Corporation in Lansing for the 
past five years and moved to Lake Odessa from Woodland two years ago.

Surviving are his wife, the former Florence Myers; one son, Lewis Michael at 
home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bates of Selkirk; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes 
Bozick of Whittemore and Mrs. Jack Slee of Lansing; six brothers, Kenneth, 
Leslie, Russell, Clifford, Alwin and Donald, all of Saginaw county.

Mr. Bates reposes at the Pickens funeral chapel where services will be held 
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 under the auspices of the LaVerne Demaray Post of 
the American Legion.  The Rev. R. E. Spray will officiate.  Burial will be in 
Lakeside cemetery.



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