Mrs. Bateman was born Mary Marr on July 11, 1873, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Marr. She later became a clerk in the local post office and was always active in literary and social circles. Her marriage to Henderson Bateman took place at Stiles on the 27th of September 1899. He passed away on July 17th, 1920.
She is survived by a daughter, Elva, Mrs. B. Smith, with whom she was planning to make her home this coming winter. The letter she had just posted was to inform Mrs. Smith that she was ready to move and that they could get her. Two sons, Kermit and Norman, both of Two Rivers, are also left to mourn her loss, and another boy, Howard preceded his mother to the life beyond.
Wilfred Marr of California is the only other surviving near relative, as three brothers and a sister are dead. Mr. Marr, who is well known here, could not come for the rites, but a rose was sent by airmail which was to be placed on the breast of his sister. A cousin, Mrs. Earl Liladahl of Milwaukee attended the services.
The requiem mass was sung by the Rev. P.J. Grosnick at St. Anthony's church on Tuesday morning at nine am. Messrs. Edw. Graf, Wm. Wittmann, N.J. Spitzer, James McCurdie, John Waldron and Anton Gustin, neighbors and friends of the deceased, bore the remains to their resting place in the Evergreen cemetery at Oconto.
The ladies of the GAR conducted their memorial burial service for Mrs. Bateman at the Flatley undertaking chapel on Monday evening.
A kindly, friendly neighbor, always ready to lend a helping hand, a devoted mother, Mrs. Bateman will be missed and mourned. Her grieving children have the sympathy of all, and are bidden to take cheer in the thought that she has received the reward so richly earned.