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Edith Maxine (Jones) Bateman

Edith Maxine (Jones) Bateman

MANKATO — Edith Maxine (Jones) Bateman, 99, died Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato.

Visitation will be 1-3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Woodland Hills Funeral Home in Mankato, with interment following at Woodland Hills Memorial Park Cemetery.

Edith was born Jan. 23, 1920, in Geneva, Iowa, to Melvin John and Sarah Elizabeth (Monroe) Jones. She attended school in Geneva and Des Moines, and graduated from Fairmont High School.

On March 3, 1938, she married Donald Bateman in Estherville, Iowa. The couple spent most of their life in Mankato. Edith worked for Automatic Electric in Mankato for two years and, in 1947, she began working for Continental Can as an inspector, retiring 35 years later.

Edith is survived by many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Donald; an infant son; three sisters, Melverna Roehrs, Geraldine Thiede and Faye Talledge; one brother, George; and four brothers in infancy.

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