Dickens County History Book
DICKENS (Special) - Services for Alma Lee Yeates, 68, of Dickens will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church of Dickens with the Rev. C.L. Atkinson officiating.
Burial will be in Afton Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Yeates died Friday in Crosbyton Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was a native of Concho County. She married H.I. Yeates on May 13, 1929, in Oklahoma. She was a restaurant owner and a justice of the peace.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, B.F. of Bryan and Hugh of Fruita, Colo.; two brothers, S.M. Ethridge of Muleshoe and Bud Ethridge of Lubbock; three sisters, Grace Dawson of Dickens, Vera Medley of Lubbock and Pearl Dunlap of Muleshoe; and five grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, September 13, 1981
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Funeral services for H.I. Yeates, 83, were held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, Dickens, with church pastor, Rev. C.L. Atkinson officiating.
Yeates died at his home in Dickens on January 3. Death was ruled due to natural causes. He was born March 18, 1902 in Dickens County. He married the former Alma Lee Ethredge in Oklahoma on May 13, 1929. A farmer, he had lived in Dickens County all of his life. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, B.F. Yeates, Bryan and Hugh Yeates, Fruita, CO; one brother, Tom Yeates, Roaring Springs and three sisters, Belle Hinson, Odessa; Hortense Goodwin, Afton and Eudelle Hughes, Roaring Springs; five grandchildren.
Burial was in Afton Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. nephews served as pallbearers.
©The Texas Spur, January 1986
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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