To: Lori Bates and Josh Bates, Title or Position (optional)
Samuel Allendale
Please join me in encouraging Lori & Josh to give the gift of the honorable and much respected middle name "Allendale" to their new son. Who knows what great things can be expected of Samuel Allendale Bates in the years to come?
Why is this important?
Our daughter Lori and her husband Josh are expecting their first son, Samuel in early April. As an honor to both grandfathers, Allen Bates and Dale Rutkowski they are considering making Samuel's middle name Allendale. It seemed like a wonderful gesture and even appropriate as a "native born" son of Atlanta Georgia. Recently they have begun to have second thoughts of whether their name choice is appropriate.