Bater, Mary-Louise Arnold
A long time Brockport resident, Mary-Louise died of complications from severe osteoarthritis and dementia at Strong Memorial Hospital on Sunday, August 21, 2016 at age 82.
The daughter of Edward Francis Arnold and Delta Nellans Blue Arnold, Mary-Louise was born on March 16, 1934 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
After attending one year at Douglass College in New Jersey, Mary-Louise completed her bachelor's degree in education at the State University of New York at Brockport.
She met her husband, Gene Floyd Bater, in Byron, New York (their parents' farms were on the same road) and they were married for 55 years.
Gene died in 2009 and Mary-Louise missed him terribly.
Mary-Louise taught elementary school in Batavia, New York for several years.
Wanting to satisfy her creative edge, Mary-Louise later enrolled in design classes at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
These skills were soon deployed when Mary-Louise designed and Gene built their own home in the late 1960s.
This home and the planting of its lush gardens were a center point of Gene and Mary-Louise's lives; Mary-Louise could identify every plant by both common and Latin name.
In the 1970s, Mary-Louise's interests turned to liberal and feminist social causes and she was active with the National Organization for Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood and Alternatives for Battered Women in Rochester, now known as the Willow Center.
In the late 1980s, Mary-Louise joined the staff of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. Mary-Louise was first an interviewer on socio-economic issues and then a field manager. She enjoyed the mix of fellowship with other interviewers and field managers across the country as well as the range of issues they researched. She retired in 2006.
Mary-Louise was also very keen on family genealogy and had traced her Blue family members to before the Revolutionary War.
She was a proud member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
She continued a family tradition of genealogical research that dated from the work done by her great aunts in the 1930s and before.
Mary-Louise donated her body to the Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Rochester Medical School.
She is survived by ...
her daughter, Jennifer Bater (Denver, CO), son-in-law, Dave Anderson,
son, Andrew Bater (State College, PA), daughter-in-law, Chris Bater,
granddaughter, Lindsay Huntsman (Napa, CA),
sister-in-law, Eleanor Bater (North Chili),
sister-in-law, Diane Arnold (East Brunswick, NJ),
sister-in-law, Margaret Arnold (Millington, NJ)
and many nieces and nephews in Upstate New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
She is preceded in death by both her brothers - Donald Francis Arnold of East Brunswick, New Jersey and Robert Edward Arnold of Millington, NJ.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
Published by Rochester Democrat And Chronicle on Aug. 28, 2016.
Bater, Mary-Louise Arnold
A long time Brockport resident, Mary-Louise died of complications from severe osteoarthritis and dementia at Strong Memorial Hospital on Sunday, August 21, 2016 at age 82.
The daughter of Edward Francis Arnold and Delta Nellans Blue Arnold, Mary-Louise was born on March 16, 1934 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
After attending one year at Douglass College in New Jersey, Mary-Louise completed her bachelor's degree in education at the State University of New York at Brockport.
She met her husband, Gene Floyd Bater, in Byron, New York (their parents' farms were on the same road) and they were married for 55 years.
Gene died in 2009 and Mary-Louise missed him terribly.
Mary-Louise taught elementary school in Batavia, New York for several years.
Wanting to satisfy her creative edge, Mary-Louise later enrolled in design classes at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
These skills were soon deployed when Mary-Louise designed and Gene built their own home in the late 1960s.
This home and the planting of its lush gardens were a center point of Gene and Mary-Louise's lives; Mary-Louise could identify every plant by both common and Latin name.
In the 1970s, Mary-Louise's interests turned to liberal and feminist social causes and she was active with the National Organization for Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood and Alternatives for Battered Women in Rochester, now known as the Willow Center.
In the late 1980s, Mary-Louise joined the staff of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. Mary-Louise was first an interviewer on socio-economic issues and then a field manager. She enjoyed the mix of fellowship with other interviewers and field managers across the country as well as the range of issues they researched. She retired in 2006.
Mary-Louise was also very keen on family genealogy and had traced her Blue family members to before the Revolutionary War.
She was a proud member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).
She continued a family tradition of genealogical research that dated from the work done by her great aunts in the 1930s and before.
Mary-Louise donated her body to the Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Rochester Medical School.
She is survived by ...
her daughter, Jennifer Bater (Denver, CO), son-in-law, Dave Anderson,
son, Andrew Bater (State College, PA), daughter-in-law, Chris Bater,
granddaughter, Lindsay Huntsman (Napa, CA),
sister-in-law, Eleanor Bater (North Chili),
sister-in-law, Diane Arnold (East Brunswick, NJ),
sister-in-law, Margaret Arnold (Millington, NJ)
and many nieces and nephews in Upstate New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
She is preceded in death by both her brothers - Donald Francis Arnold of East Brunswick, New Jersey and Robert Edward Arnold of Millington, NJ.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
Published by Rochester Democrat And Chronicle on Aug. 28, 2016.
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