Richard Emmert Bates of Croton-on-Hudson, New York passed away on February 2, 2019 at the age of 79. Richard was born to Emmert and Louise (George) Bates on July 27, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Riverdale in the Bronx. Richard graduated Riverdale Country School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and earned his masters from Columbia University. Richard was a proud veteran of the United States Air Force and served as an intelligence officer in Europe from 1963 through 1967. It was during this time overseas that he met the love of his life, Barbara (Delaup) Bates, a teacher from New Orleans then teaching at a school on his military base in France. Barbara and Richard were married for 48 years, until her passing in April 2016.
Richard spent his entire career in publishing, ending his career at Pearson Education in Old Tappan, NJ. He loved to read and amassed a large collection of books. Richard was an avid runner, running nine New York City Marathons and one San Diego Marathon. He was a lifelong, dedicated and passionate Yankee Fan.
Richard is survived by his daughter, Erica Bates, his son, Brett Bates, and his three grandchildren, Will, Jack, and Callie. He is also survived by his sister, Barbara Bassous and her husband Ernie Bassous, and his nephew, Jason Stevens and his wife Erica Brown.
A memorial visitation will be held on Friday, February 8, 2019 from 5-8pm at Edward F. Carter Funeral Home, 170 Kings Ferry Rd., Montrose, NY. The memorial funeral service will begin at 7pm with a military honor guard service.
In lieu of flowers, we will be collecting money at the memorial service to send trays of food every day for a week to thank the nursing staff and doctors at Northern Westchester Hospital. The hospital staff took loving care of both Barbara and Rick, who each spent many months in-patient at the hospital during their respective treatments. The staff there devoted immeasurable time and effort caring for them as if they were family or a friend. Barbara and Rick each felt it was important to always say thank you to people and this team’s work made terribly painful events much easier.
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