Avis Lorene Bates Hoard - age 70, died at 5:15 am on Jul 4, 2000, at Miami. Born Nov 5, 1929, in Peru Nebraska to Otto Bates and Mamie Brazil Bates. She moved to Miami in 1975, from Belleville Kansas. She had lived at Nine Tribes Towers until moving to a nursing center. Married Harry Hoard on Sep 13, 1947, at Belleville. He preceded her in death on Mar 9, 1975, at Trenton Missouri. Cooper-Althouse funeral home, Miami. Burial in Glen Abbey Memorial Gardens cemetery, east of Miami Oklahoma