Services for Christy Sue Bates Jerdon age 46 of East Dublin, will be held 1:00 PM Saturday, May 23, 2015 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Friday from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Christy was born on 12/24/1968, in Laurens County to John and Glenda Bates. As a child, she enjoyed playing with her brothers, helping her father on the farm and sewing with her mother. She attended and graduated from East Laurens High School. During her high school years, she showed loyalty as a Falcon cheerleader. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood Education from Mercer University. She started teaching in 1990 at East Laurens Primary School and retired in 2014. All 23 years of teaching were spent at East Laurens Primary. Her love for her students was evident each day. She attended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Her free time was spent traveling and reading but her passion was spending time with her beloved son, Spencer. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Beacher A. and Laverne Morris and Arthur and Susie Bates, a niece, Hannah Bates. Survivors include her son, Spencer Jerdon of East Dublin, parents, John and Glenda Bates of East Dublin, brothers, Tom (Teresa) Bates of Pocatello, ID, Samuel Bates of Atlanta, Nathaniel Bates of East Dublin, friend, Ray "Tater" Millis of Atlanta, nieces and nephews, Dakota (Kelsie) Bates, Brittni (Jeff) Scott, Emma Bates, Levi Bates, great nephews, Everett T. Bates and Marshall Scott, Spencer's grandmother Jewell Jerdon Bartell. DMetri Rickk Efforts, Chan O'Neal, Donnie O'Neal, Mark Tarpley, Terry Jones, Dakota Bates, Levi Bates, and Matt Laidlaw will serve as pallbearers.