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Retha Nell Bates 1948 - c. 1998

Retha Nell Bates was born on November 11, 1948 in Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado United States to Walter K Bates and Reva Bell Easter, and had siblings Randy Walter Bates, Frank Eugene Bates, and Marcella Bates. Retha Bates married Roy Ballard Jr., and died at age 50 years old circa 1998 in Tulare, CA.

Retha Nell Bates

November 11, 1948

Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States

circa 1998

Tulare, California, United States

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1948

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November 11, 1948

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Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado United States

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circa 1998

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Tulare, California United States
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Retha Nell Bates lived 23 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 49.

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In 1948, in the year that Retha Nell Bates was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

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In 1968, Retha was 20 years old when on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.

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