Yates, Edith (Mrs. Merle) 1899-1980

YATES, LINDENMAN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 4/10/2014 at 06:11:50

March 20, 1980 Hawarden Independent

Mrs. Merle Yates, 80, of Hawarden died Monday, March 10 at the Hawarden Hospital. Services were at 10 a.m. Saturday in the United Methodist Church at Hawarden. The Rev. Marion Bloodworth officiated. Burial was in Grace Hill Cemetery. There was a prayer service at 9 p;m. Friday, at the Dow Funeral Home.

Mrs. Yates, the former Edith Lindenman, was born June 26, 1899 near Ireton. She was married NOV. 30, 1922 at Ireton. They farmed in the Ireton area before retiring and moving into Havjrarden in January of 1959. Mr. Yates died Sept. 5, 1978. She was a member of the United Methodest church Mrs. Yates had been a resident of Hillcrest Care Center in Hawarden for the last year.

Survivors include three sons, Lloyd of Mill Valley, Calif., Wesley of Davis, |Calif. And Stanley of, Ireton; eight granddaughters; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Woods of McAlester, Okla., and Mrs. Rose Yates of Hawarden; and one brother, Albert, of Forest Grove, Ore.