Mrs. Mattie Yates Died Yesterday
Mother of H. L. and L. C. Yates Had Lived Here Half a Century
Funeral Christmas Afternoon at Wilson Funeral Home
Once again a Christmas season has been saddened by a death in this community; this time by the passing late yesterday of Mrs. Mattie E. Yates, 86, at her home where she had lain seriously ill three weeks. Her funeral will be held at 2:30 oclock tomorrow afternoon, Christmas day, at the Wilson Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. A. C. Klamm, Presbyterian pastor, and burial will be in the King City cemetery.
For a quarter of a century people had thought of Mrs. Yates as "a frail old lady," and yet she remained surprisingly active of mind and body most of the time. Each of the last seven winters brought serious illness to her, but each time she had managed somehow to recover.
Fifty years a widow, Mrs. Yates had lived in King City fifty-three years. Her maiden name was Mattie Emmerson and she was born March 29, 1857, in Kentucky. She married John Lester [sic] Yates, an early-day school teacher in Andrew county. They lived at Flag Springs several years and there their four children were born, Virgil E. Yates, who died in 1927 at Bethany; Herschel L. Yates, assistant postmaster here; Leland C. Yates, manager of the Rexall store here, and a daughter who died in infancy. The family moved here from Flag Springs in 1889. Mr. Yates died four years later, and Mrs. Yates continued to make a home for her three sons until they moved out into homes of their own. Since then she had maintained a home for herself, living alone a good deal of the time. She was employed many years as a clerk in the Millan & Wagers Merc. Co. store here, thus widening her acquaintance, and her courtesy and tireless patience won her the high esteem of employers and customers alike. She had lived approximately thirty years in her last residence, across the street east from the water tower.
Mrs. Yates was a member of the Presbyterian church and a contributor to its work as long as she was able.
Surviving besides the two sons here are three grandsons, Lt. Virgil T. Yates of the U. S. Army, recently sent overseas; William Yates, a chemist located in West Virginia, and Thomas L. Yates, an advertising agency executive of Fort Worth, Texas; and. a niece of whom she was very fond, Miss Daisy Franklin of St. Joseph, many years a teacher in the city school system there.
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1857 - 1943 (86 years)
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