Verlinda Yates, 410 Fitzhugh, died Wednesday, 10 Sep 1986, at 6:15 p.m. in McCuistion Regional Medical Center.
Services were held Friday, 12 Sep, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. John Peel, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.
Miss Yates was born 24 Dec 1895, in Paris, a daughter of T.J.R. Yates and Fannie Coleman Yates.
She attended Paris schools and was graduated from East Texas State University with bachelor's and master's degrees in education. She taught at Fourth Ward Elementary School 42 years before retiring in 1964. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and was a charter member of the Paris Business and Professional Women's Club, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, the Sarah Anna Wesleyan Service Guild, the Knife and Fork Club and the Fourth Ward Parent-Teachers Association.
Surviving are nieces and nephews, including Jack Tinnin of Dallas, Sam Tinnin of St. Louis, Mo., Mary Frances Williams of Paris and other great nieces and nephews.
Verlinda Yates, 410 Fitzhugh, died Wednesday, 10 Sep 1986, at 6:15 p.m. in McCuistion Regional Medical Center.
Services were held Friday, 12 Sep, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. John Peel, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.
Miss Yates was born 24 Dec 1895, in Paris, a daughter of T.J.R. Yates and Fannie Coleman Yates.
She attended Paris schools and was graduated from East Texas State University with bachelor's and master's degrees in education. She taught at Fourth Ward Elementary School 42 years before retiring in 1964. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and was a charter member of the Paris Business and Professional Women's Club, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, the Sarah Anna Wesleyan Service Guild, the Knife and Fork Club and the Fourth Ward Parent-Teachers Association.
Surviving are nieces and nephews, including Jack Tinnin of Dallas, Sam Tinnin of St. Louis, Mo., Mary Frances Williams of Paris and other great nieces and nephews.
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