ANNIE LAuRA BATES BELOVED MOTHER,

GRANDMOTHER, SISTER, AUNT,

MOTHER-IN-LAW, COUSIN AND FRIEND

PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH 9270 FARM TO MARKET 349 - LONGVIEW, TX 75603

REVEREND RICHARD HOLLOWAY, PASTOR

REVEREND ROBERT L. DAVIS, EULOGIST

Vernon Calvin Stoker, II Kim Geter

Mandel Stoker Manuel Stoker

Arnold London Wayne Stoker

John “Kent” Bates Vernon Stoker, Sr.

Kelvin Bates Bursey London, Jr.

R. C. Tippit Robin Bryant

Willie Ray London Clarence London

Webster Bates George Bates

Harvey Bates Curtis Bates

Our Gratitude and Appreciation

Our family will always be grateful for the continuous and loving manner in which you have expressed your concern during this period of bereavement. Words cannot express what we feel, but we want to express our sincere thanks and

appreciation for the flowers, cards, food and any act of kindness and most of all your prayers. A heartfelt thank-you is given to Kim Geter, the Stoker family and

Heart to Heart Hospice. Your kindness will never be forgotten. May God forever bless each of you.

The family of Annie London Bates

Pallbearers

Honorary Pallbearers

Interment Grable Cemetery

Repast The repast will follow immediately after the interment in the

Pleasant Green Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.

1004 Martin Luther King Drive, Kilgore, TX (903) 988-1122 phone - 903-234-0511 fax

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De’Lores P. Arline - Owner

Robin F. London and DeWayne Moore Funeral Directors

Funeral Services

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Sunrise September 14, 1931

Sunset August 15, 2014

Processional …………………………………………………………………………….… Clergy and Family Congregational Song Scripture Reading:

Old Testament ……………………...…………………………..………...…….. Rev. Charles Gray Pastor Emeritus, Fredonia Baptist Church, Kilgore, TX

New Testament ……..………….……………………………………………….. Rev. James Shans

Pastor, True Believers Baptist Church, Longview, Texas Prayer ……………………………………….……………………………..……….....Rev. Richard Holloway Solo ……..……………………………………..……………..………………………..…. Rev. James Shans Resolution …………………………………………………….………….. Pleasant Green Baptist Church Song Selection ……………………………………………………………………...……. The Stoker Family Expressions of Gratitude ………….…………………………………..…. Ms. Tammy Kittina Williams

Solo ……………………….…....……….……..……...…………………………….…. Mr. Thomas Flowers

Eulogy ………………………….…………………………………………………….…. Rev. Robert L. Davis

Pastor, Corinth Baptist Church, Tyler, Texas

Presentation ………………………………………………………………… Victory Funeral Services Staff

Final Tribute ……………………………………………………………….. Victory Funeral Services Staff

Recessional

A CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR MRS. ANNIE LAURA LONDON BATES

AUGUST 20, 2014 AT 11 A.M. PASTOR RICHARD HOLLOWAY, OFFICIANT

Order of Service

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,

I have kept the faith: 2Tim-othy 4:6-7

Love is ... Obituary: REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF AND LOVING MEMORY OF

Mrs. Annie Laura London Bates Annie was born Monday, September 14, 1931 to the parentage of Henry and Agnes Woods London in Longview, TX. On Friday, August 15, 2014 she departed this life at Longview Regional Hospital in Longview, Texas.

In her early years she united with and was baptized at Pleasant Green Baptist Church and served dutifully until her health failed. She was a faithful working member serving in the Choir, on the Culinary Committee, in the Missionary Society and was honored by the church as one of its distinguished senior members.

She attended New Hope and Fredonia public schools and graduated from Greenville High School (later Ned E. Williams High School) in Longview.

Many of her years were spent as a homemaker; however, she was employed for 19 years before retirement at the Cherokee Club with prior work at various institutes as a cook. Although she was known for her amazing cooking skills, she was also proficient in her other hobbies of candle making and flower arranging.

She married John Bates in 1952 and six children were born to this union.

Her parents, husband, five brothers, Oliver, Bursey, Sr., James, Henry and Louis London and a sister, Henry Mae London all preceded her in death.

She leaves to cherish four daughters and sons-in-law; Joyce Bates and Barbara Evans both of Longview, TX, Gwen and Rev. James Shans of Henderson, TX and Regina and Kim Geter of Kilgore, TX; two sons and daughter-in-law, John “Kent” Bates of Longview, TX and Kelvin and Peggy Bates of Ardmore, OK; a sister and her spouse, Betty and Vernon Stoker, Sr. of Longview, TX; a brother, Clarence London of Dallas, TX; sisters and brothers-in-law, Annie London of Dallas, TX; George and Bobbie Bates, Webster and Mildred Bates, Har-vey and Rosetta Bates, Avie London and Beverly London all of Longview, TX; 17 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.

… that condition in which the happiness

of another person is essential to your

own.

-Robert Heinlein

Family ...

Joyce and daughters

...First

Barbara and Grands

Gwen and Crew

Kent and Family

Regina, Daughter & Grands

Kelvin and Family

Joyce Bates Barbara Evans Gwen Shans

John “Kent” Bates Regina Geter Kelvin Bates