Ronny K. Bates, age 29, from Aiken County Aiken, South Carolina .
Parents: Thomas Sr. and Margie Bates
Spouse: Linda
Children: Laura, 2
Service era: Beirut bombings
Schools: Aiken High (1972)
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Cemetery: New Bern National
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, findagrave.com, The State (1983)