Funeral services for Juanita Maxine Bateman, 94, of Chickasha, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, 2020 in the Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel, Chickasha, Oklahoma with Justin Avery officiating.
Juanita Maxine (Kilpatrick) Bateman was born February 28, 1926 in Hunter, Oklahoma, the daughter of Claude Kilpatrick and Addie Mae (Whitaker) Kilpatrick. She passed away Monday, March 2, 2020 in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Juanita grew up on a dairy farm in Hunter and when her parents retired from that, they moved to the Garber area where she graduated high school. She attended Oklahoma State for about a year.
On August 30, 1945, she married Harold Neal Bateman in Seminole, Oklahoma and they had 55 years together before his passing in 2000.
Juanita stayed at home and raised her children during their younger years. In 1956, through Harold’s job they were transferred to Colorado, where she worked as a cook in the high school cafeteria for around 12 years. Harold was transferred back to Oklahoma in 1980 and they made their home in Chickasha.
She was a longtime member of Parkview Christian Church and was very active in the church. Any event at the church that involved working in the kitchen you would find Juanita right in the midst of it. She was known as the “deviled egg lady.” She enjoyed crocheting and knitting and would crochet baby blankets for the unwed mother’s home and donate toiletries to local nursing homes. She was also loved bowling and was in bowling leagues. Juanita and her daughter Janet would take teams to national bowling tournaments where they would bowl as doubles partners.
She was preceded in death by both parents; husband Harold; daughter Karen Bateman; two brothers Robert Kilpatrick and Cecil Kilpatrick; and two sisters Genevieve Strickland and Mary Ann Hollowell.
Survivors include her children and their spouses Kerry and Teresa Bateman of Moore, Janet and Clinton Rakowitz of Adkins, Texas and Alan and Lynn Bateman of Grand Junction, Colorado; six grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren; and other extended family and friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests you choose a local charity of your choice.
Interment will be at 2:00 p.m. in the Covington Cemetery, Covington, Oklahoma under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.