Grandma Dedafoe's Scrapbook
Written: "May 1964"
Mary A. Mame BATES
Mary A. (Mame) Bates, age 97, formerly of 225 E. Washington and of late at R.F.D. 1, Dimondale, passed
away at the home of her daughter, following a lingering illness.
She was born in Adrian, on November 16, 1866 and had been a resident of Dimondale and vicinity for 76 years.
She was a member of the WRC and the Community Club.
She is survived by 2 daughters Mrs. Luella DeWITT, of Flint and Mrs. Myrtle WRIGHT, at whose home she
resided at when she passed away; 1 foster daughter, Mrs. Lulabell BAILEY, of Lansing, 9 grandchildren and 21 great-grand-
children.
Funeral services were held from the Berl Field Funeral Home on Wednesday May 27 at 2 P.M. with Rev.
Gerald A. Salisbury, of the Grovenburg Methodist Church officiating. Interment was made in the Dimondale Cemetery.
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