Wayne Bates

Brief Life History of Wayne

When Wayne Bates was born on 6 October 1918, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, George Sprague Bates, was 25 and his mother, Cordelia Elizabeth Poulter, was 26. He married Virginia Helen Scribner on 27 February 1943, in Huntington, Suffolk, New York, United States. He lived in Star Election Precinct, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1920 and Oyster Bay, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, United States in 1950. He died on 27 May 2005, in New York, United States, at the age of 86.

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Wayne Bates
1918–2005
Virginia Helen Scribner
1918–2000
Marriage: 27 February 1943

Sources (11)

  • Wayne Bates, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Wayne P Bates, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Wayne Bates, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1923 · The Ellen Eccles Theatre

The Ellen Eccles Theater was originally known as the Capitol Theater and was home to different vaudevilles and operas. The Theater later became solely used for community events and movies. In 1988, popular outcry from the public led to the city of Logan purchasing the theater and a not-for-profit organization was formed to renovate and operate it. Fire destroyed much of the theater's annex in 1990 during a restoration attempt by the city. However, the Theater reopened to a gala performance on January 8, 1993. It is used today for performances of the Utah Festival Opera Company along with the Cache Valley Civic Ballet, Music Theater West, Valley Dance Ensemble, Cache Theater Company, and several Utah State University performing groups.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.

Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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