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RIP Mary Bates - you and Ted were key to Saints history and I feel sure your memory will live long alongside that of Ted's. A plaque on Ted's statue plinth might be appropriate to recognise the dual role you both played perhaps.

 

100% agree RIP Mary

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I worked with a friend of Mary's many years ago - Nobby Clarke. He used to say what a lovely couple you are, we can all take some comfort that you are now re-united. Sleep well Mary.

 

Nice piece on the OS too.

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RIP Mary, The word Legend is bandied about far to easily nowadays. But both you and Ted are REAL SAINTS LEGENDS in the true sense of the words. You are now back with the Boss Please say hi from us.

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wow - i had no idea that she was that much a fabric of the club and a real trailblazer and way ahead of her time as were SFC in appointing her as Secretary.

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Anyone who's read "Dell Diamond" will know that Mary played an important role in running the club.

 

In an era where women were seen as only good for making the tea and typing, Mary was a very able administrator and I believe that she was Club Secretary for a time.

 

They say that behind every good man there's a good women. That certainly applied in Ted's case.

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Condolances to all the family and friends. Behind every great man is a great woman and Mary certainly was such a woman and played a vital role in Ted's greatness. RIP Mary.

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A sad day for the City of Southampton and a reminder that with all the dodgy characters involved with Saints in recent times and even MLT blotting his copybook a little, still the only person of unimpeachable integrity in Saints supporters eyes is Ted Bates... RIP Mary, give Ted a hug from all of us.

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RIP Mary.

 

I have to admit to not having read Dell Diamond, so that piece from the OS was very enlightening. It makes you proud when you read about our history how for a "Little" club from the genteel South of England we have been so Avant-garde with the running and infrastructure of the club. And the people like Mary Bates, in what was a man's world, was pushing the edge of that metaphorical envelope.

 

Thank you Mary.

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