Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Saturday, May 22, 1982

Garland Allen Bates

Services for Garland Allen Bates, 37, of Boyce will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Rush with the Revs. W. H. Effersen and Lawrence “Buddy” Martin officiating. Burial will be in Welcome Home Cemetery, Grayson.

Bates died at 7:20 a.m. Friday in Baton Rouge General Hospital. He was a trucking supervisor for T. L. James Construction Co. for the past 13 years.

Survivors include one daughter, Elizabeth Dawn Bates of Boyce; three brothers, Otis Bates of Sharp, Grady Bates of Alexandria and Randy Bates of Boyce; and his mother, Florence Bates of Boyce.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday.