The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce recently named their Person of the Year, Bates Family Funeral Home Director Robb Bates.

Robb is a DeKalb native, having graduated DeKalb High School in 1997.   A third-generation funeral director, Robb began his career in the funeral business in 2002, working in Ennis, Texas at J.E. Keever Mortuary while attending mortuary school at and graduating from the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service.  In 2009, he and his father Robby opened Bates Family Funeral Home in De...