DENNIS G. BATES

DENNIS G. BATES of Middleport, NY died July 20, 2022 at the age of 78. A licensed funeral director since 1965, he worked at Gual Funeral Home in Lockport before purchasing the Bates, Wallace and Heath Funeral Home in Middleport in 1973 and the Bates Cleary Funeral Home in Medina in 1982. Bates operated the funeral home in Middleport until he retired in 2015. A 1963 graduate of the Simmons Institute of Funeral Service, he served as the sexton for St. Stephen’s Cemetery for thirty-five years.