Charles Edward Alan Bates, age 29, of Gadsden, Alabama entered Heaven’s gates on Friday May 3, 2019. Funeral Services will be 1pm Thursday, May 9, 2019 at Collier Butler Chapel. Rev. Chris Burns and Rev. Randy Gunter will officiate. Burial will follow at Forrest Crest Cemetery in Irondale, AL. Collier Butler Funeral Home will direct services.
Charles had attended Westbrook Christian School and was a graduate of Gadsden City High School, Class of 2008. He was in the top 10 percent of his graduating class. Charles was accomplished in Karate, and earned black belts in both Taekwondo and Seidokan. He was a member of the National World Karate Team and had competed internationally. He also taught Karate.
After high school, Charles attended Auburn University and was an offensive lineman on the Auburn football team. He was recognized as a Honor Academic Football Player. He excelled in the classroom and is on record for having the highest average in Mathematics ever at Auburn. He was also a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity at Auburn. His major was in Biomedical Engineering and he was near completion of degrees in Mathematics, Aero dynamics, Physics, and Science. Charles was a member of Meadowbrook Baptist Church
Charles is preceded in death by his grandparents, Jean Richardson Sudduth, R.K.Bates, Edith Covington Graff and Edmund Graff, and Joseph N. Brown; aunt Michelle Rene’ Banks; uncle Lyndon Seals, cousin Farrah Seals.
He is survived by his mother Willbon “Willy” Brown Bates and father Richard Alan Bates; Chosen Mom JoAnn Clevenger; maternal aunt Jenny Seals; cousin Bradley Seales (Destinie) and child Thatcher Lovejoy; paternal uncle Greg Bates (Andrea) and children Heath Bates (Brittany), Carter and Hunter Bates; Maternal uncle Ronnie Brown; paternal uncle Kenneth Lee Bates and cousins Corey and Melissa; and chosen grandparents (William and Nancy Clevenger, and multiple aunts, uncles and cousins of the Clevenger, Bates, and Brown families; and special friend Garry Glidewell. Charles had many friends too numerous to list, each of them special to him.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 11 AM until the hour of service.
In Lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital or the Alabama Organs Center.
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