Wanda Elaine Bates was a loving mother, daughter, sister and devoted friend to all who knew her. There will be a singing in your heart and there will be a rapture in your eyes. You will be a woman set apart, you will be so wonderful and wise. You will sleep and when from dreams you start, as of one that wakes in Paradise. There will be a singing in your heart. There will be a rapture in your eyes. There will be a moaning in your heart and there will be an anguish in your eyes. You will see your dearest ones depart and you will hear their quivering good-byes. Yours will be the heart-ache and the smart and tears that scald and lonely sacrifice; There will be a moaning in your heart and there will be an anguish in your eyes. There will come a glory in your eyes and there will come a peace within your heart; Sitting 'neath the quiet evening skies because time will dry the tear and dull the smart. You will know that you have played your part; Yours shall be the love that never dies: You, with Heaven's peace within your heart, You, with God's own glory in your eyes.

Wanda Elaine Bates will be truly missed by a host of relatives and friends. Psalms 121