William Gilvin "Bill" Bates

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The McDougald Funeral Home - Anderson

Posted event

May 14, 2025

May

Funeral service

2:00 p.m.

Trinity Methodist Church

101 S. Main Street, Honea Path, SC 29654

The McDougald Funeral Home - Anderson

Posted an obituary

May 14, 2025

William Bates Obituary

William Gilvin "Bill" Bates, 86, of Honea Path, SC, passed away peacefully at the Rainey Hospice House on May 13, 2025. Born on July 4, 1938, in Gaffney, SC, he was the beloved son of the late Clarence Gilvin Bates and Sara Brown Wooten. Bi... Read William Bates's Obituary