SERVES IN 'FRISCO -- Lieut (j.g.) Dorothy M. Bates, daughter of Mrs. Frank Gipple, of Columbus Junction, in the WAVES since December, 1942, is now stationed in San Francisco. She was given basic training at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls. One of her brothers, Maj. Joseph P. Bates, in the army since the fall of 1942, went to Pearl Harbor in May 1944 and has been at Iwo Jima since February this year.
Another bother, Ronald G. Bates, has been discharged after having served in the Pacific for 31 months.
Source: Quad City Times, September 2, 1945
Joseph Paul Bates was born about 1906 to Joseph E. and Bessie Holland Bates.
Maj. Bates served in World War II in the U.S. Army in Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima.
Source: ancestry.com
