Laurie Bates poses for a photo on the beach in front of her home on Ocean Avenue on the eastern end of East Matunuck Beach in Jerusalem, Narragansett, R.I., on August 9.

July 14, 2014 Laurie E. (Livingston) Bates, age 50, of Lake Road, Galway, passed away peacefully Monday, July 14 at St. Peter’s Hospice Inn with her husband at her side.

Laurie Bates poses for a photo on the beach in front of her home on Ocean Avenue on the eastern end of East Matunuck Beach in Jerusalem, Narragansett, R.I., on August 9.