Age 84, Mountain Park - Services will be at 2:00 pm Friday in the First Baptist Church, Mountain Park with Bro. Harlon Woodall officiating. Mrs. Bates died Monday in an Altus hospital. Burial will be in the Mountain Park Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home of Snyder. ** The family will greet friends Thursday evening from 6pm until 8pm at the funeral home ** She was born March 19, 1925 in LaMesa, Texas to Floyd and Maude (Burns) Massie. She was the fourth child of eleven. She married Dalton Bates on November 15, 1947. Together they raised six daughters. God and her family were very important in her life. When she and Dalton farmed, she would work in the fields all day, then go home to cook and do household chores. She worked at the Mountain Park School lunchroom for a number of years, and cooked for the Snyder-Mountain Park Rotary Club with her friend Ona Walker. She delighted in her daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren. They all share special stories of grandma. She was much loved and will be greatly missed. She is survived by her husband Dalton of the home, six daughters and five sons-in-law, Treva and Jimmie Beason of Snyder, Laverne and Henry Dempsey of Mountain Park, Debora Bates of Mountain Park, Carolyn and Jerry West of Lawton, Glenda and Greg Holtke of Marlow and Darla and Jeff McKinney of Manitou. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, two sisters and four brothers. She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, three brothers, grandson Mason McKinney and great granddaughter Karah Beason. Memorial contributions may be made to the Mountain Park Cemetery Association at 1001 F Street, Snyder, OK 73566.