Larry Bates

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Smith Family Funeral Homes - Hot Springs

Posted events

September 8, 2025

Sep

Visitation

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Center Fork Baptist Church

1101 South Moore Road, Hot Springs, AR 71913

Sep

Funeral service

10:00 a.m.

Center Fork Baptist Church

1101 South Moore Road, Hot Springs, AR 71913

Smith Family Funeral Homes - Hot Springs

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September 8, 2025

Smith Family Funeral Homes - Hot Springs

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September 8, 2025

Larry Bates Obituary

Larry, dad, daddy, Uncle Larry, grandpa was born in Mena, Arkansas on March 4, 1942, to parents Edwin Bates (dec) and Maxine Titsworth (dec), joining older sister, Edwina Bates Waddington (Ralph, dec). In his teens, his mother married the man... Read Larry Bates's Obituary