Obituary of Eugenia Brown Bateman

LEXINGTON-Graveside service for Eugenia Brown Bateman, 84, of Lexington, will be held at 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at Fort Jackson National Cemetery. Dr. Mark Bredholt will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6-7 p.m. Monday at Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington, 4720 Augusta Road, Lexington, SC 29073. Mrs. Bateman died on Friday, December 20, 2013. Born in Sumter County, SC, on October 13, 1929, she was a daughter of the late W.A. and Elizabeth Pauline Osteen Brown. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister who was a consummate military wife. She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years, Warren Bateman, Sr.; her children, Warren Bateman, Jr. (Deborah), Vicki J. Bateman all of Lexington, Ronald Bruce Bateman (Debbie) of Spotsylvania, VA and Max Bateman (Diane) of Warwick, NY; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; sister, JoAnn Willis of Festus, MO; brother, Carl Brown of Sumter, SC; and a large and loving extended family. She was predeceased by her parents, a brother and two sisters.