Virgil J. Bates Sr., 85, of Moline, died Friday, March 28, 2008, at Pathway Hospice, Trinity at Terrace Park, Bettendorf.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Rafferty Funeral Home, 2111 1st St. A, Moline. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, with military honors conducted by American Legion Post 246, Moline. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials can be made to Trinity Pathway Hospice.
Virgil was born Feb. 4, 1923, in Lansing, Mich., the son of Cloyd and Edna Freydell Bates. He married Jessie Myrtice Youmans Feb. 24, 1944, in Norfolk, Va. She preceded him in death Jan. 2, 2006.
Virgil graduated from Moline High School in 1941. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Mr. Bates retired from city of Rock Island in the water works department and he worked at the former Nuway, Milan.
Virgil was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, and the former Coal Valley American Legion. He enjoyed gardening.
Survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Nancy Hoskins, Moline, and Joyce and Everett Nesseler, Milan; son and daughter-in-law, Daniel and Billie Bates, Moline; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Myrtle Griffin, Memphis, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Virgil J. Bates Jr., who died while serving in the Vietnam War in 1971; and a grandson, Daniel Bates.
(Rock Island Argus, Mar. 30, 2008)
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Rafferty Funeral Home, 2111 1st St. A, Moline. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, with military honors conducted by American Legion Post 246, Moline. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials can be made to Trinity Pathway Hospice.
Virgil was born Feb. 4, 1923, in Lansing, Mich., the son of Cloyd and Edna Freydell Bates. He married Jessie Myrtice Youmans Feb. 24, 1944, in Norfolk, Va. She preceded him in death Jan. 2, 2006.
Virgil graduated from Moline High School in 1941. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Mr. Bates retired from city of Rock Island in the water works department and he worked at the former Nuway, Milan.
Virgil was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, and the former Coal Valley American Legion. He enjoyed gardening.
Survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Nancy Hoskins, Moline, and Joyce and Everett Nesseler, Milan; son and daughter-in-law, Daniel and Billie Bates, Moline; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Myrtle Griffin, Memphis, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Virgil J. Bates Jr., who died while serving in the Vietnam War in 1971; and a grandson, Daniel Bates.
(Rock Island Argus, Mar. 30, 2008)
Virgil J. Bates Sr., 85, of Moline, died Friday, March 28, 2008, at Pathway Hospice, Trinity at Terrace Park, Bettendorf.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Rafferty Funeral Home, 2111 1st St. A, Moline. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, with military honors conducted by American Legion Post 246, Moline. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials can be made to Trinity Pathway Hospice.
Virgil was born Feb. 4, 1923, in Lansing, Mich., the son of Cloyd and Edna Freydell Bates. He married Jessie Myrtice Youmans Feb. 24, 1944, in Norfolk, Va. She preceded him in death Jan. 2, 2006.
Virgil graduated from Moline High School in 1941. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Mr. Bates retired from city of Rock Island in the water works department and he worked at the former Nuway, Milan.
Virgil was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, and the former Coal Valley American Legion. He enjoyed gardening.
Survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Nancy Hoskins, Moline, and Joyce and Everett Nesseler, Milan; son and daughter-in-law, Daniel and Billie Bates, Moline; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Myrtle Griffin, Memphis, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Virgil J. Bates Jr., who died while serving in the Vietnam War in 1971; and a grandson, Daniel Bates.
(Rock Island Argus, Mar. 30, 2008)
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Rafferty Funeral Home, 2111 1st St. A, Moline. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, with military honors conducted by American Legion Post 246, Moline. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials can be made to Trinity Pathway Hospice.
Virgil was born Feb. 4, 1923, in Lansing, Mich., the son of Cloyd and Edna Freydell Bates. He married Jessie Myrtice Youmans Feb. 24, 1944, in Norfolk, Va. She preceded him in death Jan. 2, 2006.
Virgil graduated from Moline High School in 1941. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Mr. Bates retired from city of Rock Island in the water works department and he worked at the former Nuway, Milan.
Virgil was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, and the former Coal Valley American Legion. He enjoyed gardening.
Survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Nancy Hoskins, Moline, and Joyce and Everett Nesseler, Milan; son and daughter-in-law, Daniel and Billie Bates, Moline; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Myrtle Griffin, Memphis, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Virgil J. Bates Jr., who died while serving in the Vietnam War in 1971; and a grandson, Daniel Bates.
(Rock Island Argus, Mar. 30, 2008)
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