Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
Services for Esther K. Bateman, 84, of Spring Valley, were Friday in Featheringill Mortuary, with burial in El Camino Memorial Park. She died Wednesday in a convalescent center.
Mrs. Bateman, a homemaker, was a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, and lived in the county 44 years. She, along with her husband, Walter, an Assembly of God minister, provided a "home away from home" to servicemen from World War II through the Korean War. The couple began the project in their home during World War II and eventually opened the Armed Forces Servicemen's Center in 1951 located above San Diego Hardware on Fifth Avenue, which they operated until 1974. Through church contributions, the couple provided food and a homelike atmosphere for foreign servicemen away from home.
After the Korean War, the Batemans began a military assistance program and ministered to foreign sailors and Marines who trained here. Mrs. Bateman became an expert on international cuisine by serving meals in the style of the servicemen's native lands. In 1971, she was proclaimed the "American mother" of the Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps, in Seoul.
Survivors include two sons, Walter of Spring Valley and Philip of El Cajon; a daughter, Marcia Johansen of Alpine; a sister, Ruth Hamlin of Kansas City, Mo.; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family suggested donations to Templo Gethsemani, 541 East Main, P.O. Box 1774, Avondale, Ariz., 85323.
Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
Services for Esther K. Bateman, 84, of Spring Valley, were Friday in Featheringill Mortuary, with burial in El Camino Memorial Park. She died Wednesday in a convalescent center.
Mrs. Bateman, a homemaker, was a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, and lived in the county 44 years. She, along with her husband, Walter, an Assembly of God minister, provided a "home away from home" to servicemen from World War II through the Korean War. The couple began the project in their home during World War II and eventually opened the Armed Forces Servicemen's Center in 1951 located above San Diego Hardware on Fifth Avenue, which they operated until 1974. Through church contributions, the couple provided food and a homelike atmosphere for foreign servicemen away from home.
After the Korean War, the Batemans began a military assistance program and ministered to foreign sailors and Marines who trained here. Mrs. Bateman became an expert on international cuisine by serving meals in the style of the servicemen's native lands. In 1971, she was proclaimed the "American mother" of the Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps, in Seoul.
Survivors include two sons, Walter of Spring Valley and Philip of El Cajon; a daughter, Marcia Johansen of Alpine; a sister, Ruth Hamlin of Kansas City, Mo.; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family suggested donations to Templo Gethsemani, 541 East Main, P.O. Box 1774, Avondale, Ariz., 85323.
Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
Services for Esther K. Bateman, 84, of Spring Valley, were Friday in Featheringill Mortuary, with burial in El Camino Memorial Park. She died Wednesday in a convalescent center.
Mrs. Bateman, a homemaker, was a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, and lived in the county 44 years. She, along with her husband, Walter, an Assembly of God minister, provided a "home away from home" to servicemen from World War II through the Korean War. The couple began the project in their home during World War II and eventually opened the Armed Forces Servicemen's Center in 1951 located above San Diego Hardware on Fifth Avenue, which they operated until 1974. Through church contributions, the couple provided food and a homelike atmosphere for foreign servicemen away from home.
After the Korean War, the Batemans began a military assistance program and ministered to foreign sailors and Marines who trained here. Mrs. Bateman became an expert on international cuisine by serving meals in the style of the servicemen's native lands. In 1971, she was proclaimed the "American mother" of the Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps, in Seoul.
Survivors include two sons, Walter of Spring Valley and Philip of El Cajon; a daughter, Marcia Johansen of Alpine; a sister, Ruth Hamlin of Kansas City, Mo.; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family suggested donations to Templo Gethsemani, 541 East Main, P.O. Box 1774, Avondale, Ariz., 85323.
Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
Services for Esther K. Bateman, 84, of Spring Valley, were Friday in Featheringill Mortuary, with burial in El Camino Memorial Park. She died Wednesday in a convalescent center.
Mrs. Bateman, a homemaker, was a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, and lived in the county 44 years. She, along with her husband, Walter, an Assembly of God minister, provided a "home away from home" to servicemen from World War II through the Korean War. The couple began the project in their home during World War II and eventually opened the Armed Forces Servicemen's Center in 1951 located above San Diego Hardware on Fifth Avenue, which they operated until 1974. Through church contributions, the couple provided food and a homelike atmosphere for foreign servicemen away from home.
After the Korean War, the Batemans began a military assistance program and ministered to foreign sailors and Marines who trained here. Mrs. Bateman became an expert on international cuisine by serving meals in the style of the servicemen's native lands. In 1971, she was proclaimed the "American mother" of the Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps, in Seoul.
Survivors include two sons, Walter of Spring Valley and Philip of El Cajon; a daughter, Marcia Johansen of Alpine; a sister, Ruth Hamlin of Kansas City, Mo.; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family suggested donations to Templo Gethsemani, 541 East Main, P.O. Box 1774, Avondale, Ariz., 85323.
Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) — Tuesday, April 14, 1987
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