Troy DaKota Bates

Funeral Services for Kodey Bates will be held 10:00 AM Friday, June 20, 2025 at Riser Funeral Home in Columbia, Louisiana. Visitation will be held Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 5 PM until 9 PM at Riser Funeral Home. The family requests a private burial, so please honor their wishes. 

Troy DaKota Bates was born on July 25, 2000, in Alexandria, Louisiana to the union of his parents, Troy Bates and Bonnie Beckley Bates and passed from this life June 17, 2025 in a  tragic accident. Kodey was well loved, and had the biggest heart a guy could have. He would help anybody he could. Kodey was a simple man who loved his family and worked hard to provide for them. He loved the Lord and was always ready to talk about it. Kodey also enjoyed music, dancing, cooking, and hanging out pestering his family. 

Kodey was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Rose and Dumpy Cockerham; paternal grandfather, Joe Bates; aunt, Bonnie Gresham. Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Shelby Barton Bates; his children, Jett Bates and  Adaline Rose Bates (who will make her arrival next month); parents, Troy and Bonnie Bates; brother, Kameron Bates; bonus brother and sister, John Palmer and Autumn Beckley; grandmother, Melva "Pesty" Evans; father and mother-in-law, Randy and Amy Barton; brother-in-law, Tanner Barton; sister-in-laws, Alexis Barton and Madison Barton; uncles, Robby Randall and Chris Bates; aunt, Kim Nugent (Dana); as well as a host of family and friends.

Pallbearers will include, Kameron Bates, Tyler Norman, Tanner Barton, Dawson Maxwell, Robert Randall, Hunter Doiron, Matthew Wright and John Palmer.