- Mrs. Olga Placke Bates, 71, of Grundy, died Tuesday at the Somerset City Hospital after an illness of three months.
The daughter of Freda Yahnig Placke and the late Henry Placke, she was born March 12, 1894 in Tennessee. She was married to William Bates in 1913 in Tennessee. Mrs. Bates was a member of the Rock Lick Baptist Church.
Survivors are her mother; the following children, William Bates, Jr., Mrs. Marie Sowders, and Mrs. Edna Mae Stewart, all of Grundy, Mrs. Roberta Cundiff, Mrs. Robert Bales, and Mrs. Ola Kuhnapfel, and Mrs. Dorothy Lee, all of Somerset, Mrs. Leta Bobbitt, Pine Hill, Mrs. Effie Callahan, Science Hill, James Bates, Dayton, Ohio, Johnnie Bates, Plainfield, Indiana, Edward Bates, Louisville, and Harold Bates, Starks, Nevada; one stepson, Alton Bates, Plainfield, Indiana; 31 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, Henry Placke and Arthur Placke, both of Grundy; and four sisters, Mrs. Emma Smith, Ferguson, Frieda Smiley, Indiana, Elsie Placke and Edna Placke, both of Grundy.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Rock Lick Baptist Church with the Rev. Gene Hansford and the Rev. Walter Jones officiating. Burial in the Rock Lick Cemetery.
Pulaski Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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1894 - 1966 (71 years)
