Person:Eudemia Marshall (1)

Obituary

From "The Gainesville Daily Register", 23 March 2007:

EUDEMIA F. MARSHALL BATSON

LAKE KIOWA — Services for Eudemia Fonceille Marshall Batson, 80, of Lake Kiowa are set for 10 a.m. Friday, March 23, 2007, at the First Baptist Church of Gainesville, officiated by Dr. Mark Denison, assisted by Robert William Batson Jr. who will give the Eulogy. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.

Eudemia F. Batson died March 20, 2007, in Gainesville. She was born on November 27, 1926, in Filer, Twin Falls County, Idaho, to Clarence Calvin and Laura Ann Ratliff Marshall. Living most of her early life in Twin Falls County, she married Paul Chisham on Aug. 15, 1943, who was killed in 1944 at Luzon in World War II. In 1947, she moved to Redondo Beach, California, where she met Robert Batson and they were married on April 12, 1948, at Las Vegas, Nevada.

She was very supportive of her husband in everything he wanted to do. They moved to Washington for a year in 1948 while he worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1949, they moved back to Redondo Beach, California, where her husband began working for Market Basket, a grocery chain, in Culver City.

When he was promoted to be the Store Manager at the new Venice store in 1953, she was very proud. Then in 1956, he was transferred to Riverside to open a new store there. In the next fourteen years, she was the one person that inspired her husband to achieve the things that he accomplished.

Then when he was promoted in 1968 to Zone Manager, they had to move to Thousands Oaks in Ventura County. They moved back to Riverside in 1976 when his area of supervision changed. She was very supportive and happy for her husband and she moved without ever complaining.

Also during this time in her life, she gave birth to four children: Patricia Ann born 1952; Robert Jr. born 1953; Jacqueline Lee born 1955; and Ronald Wesley born 1957. When her children were attending grade school in the Riverside School District, she helped out in the school cafeteria for a number of years.

In 1978, Bob and Dee had decided that when Bob retired they would move to Texas because it was getting so crowded in California. They bought a home at Lake Kiowa and leased it out until Bob was ready to retire. Why Lake Kiowa?

In 1938-1941, Robert was a Boy Scout and he attended a Boy Scout Camp on the Canadian River and that Boy Scout Camp was called Camp Kiowa. Remembering all the good things at Camp Kiowa, they had to find the community called Lake Kiowa. They have not regretted the move to Lake Kiowa.

In 1982, Market Basket was sold unexpectedly in California. Not as a chain, but each individual store was sold separately. Her husband asked for and received a transfer to the Dallas Division of Kroger Food Stores. They moved to Lake Kiowa at that time and they both joined the First Baptist Church and she became very active in the church on Wednesday nights as the recorder of prayers and sending out the prayer cards. Dee became a member of Elisian Sunday School class. She attended Sunday School and Church every Sunday and Wednesday night until she began to have health problems.

Dee was a homemaker and a wonderful wife, a loving mother and grandmother to her four children and seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence Calvin and Laura Ann Ratliff Marshall; four brothers, Clarence Howard, Benjamin Calvin, Beverly Franklin and Ronald Dean; two sisters, Loreita Evelyn and Mahala Ann; a brother-in-law and wife, Loyd Wesley and Mary Thoma Batson of Lake Havasu, Nevada; sister-in-law, Iona Mae Batson Walker and husband, John Clark Walker Jr. of Redondo Beach, California.

She is survived by her husband, Robert William Batson of Lake Kiowa; sons and daughters-in-law, Robert William Jr. and Fran Batson of Tahlequah, Okla., and Ronald Wesley and Elsa Batson of Fort Worth; daughters, Jacqueline Lee Bastian of Gainesville and Patricia Ann and husband, Donald Brown, also of Gainesville; sister-in-law, Icey Louise Huddleton, who lives at Lake Kiowa with her husband, Roy Lynn Huddleston.

There are seven grandchildren, Mahala Dee-Ann, Brie Hannah, and Mathew Charles Bastian of Gainesville, Alan Wesley and Ryan Wayne Batson of Fort Worth, Robert William III and his wife, Shanna Batson of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and Nicholas Ryan Batson of Burbank, California; and great-grandson, Robert William Batson IV.

There are several nieces and nephews. Those locally are Charles Huddleton and his wife, Julita of Lake Kiowa and their two children, Dallas and Danielle; Linda Huddleston Miyashita, also of Lake Kiowa and two of her three children, daughters, Jamie and Tiffany, live with her and a son, Jody still lives in Japan and lived with his father until his father’s death. Fumio Miyashita died in October of 2002.

Pallbearers are Jason Beck, Paul McCormack, Hubert Perry, Johnny Leftwich, Don Orsburn and Reagan Vestal.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the GA’s or to the Mission Friends Program at the First Baptist Church.

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