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OBIT: Haldon YATES, 2002, Mercer Co.
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From the Danville Advocate Messenger, 22 Mar 2002

HARRODSBURG -- Services for Haldon "Shorty" Yates, 79, of Ada Drive 
will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Alexander & Royalty Funeral Home with John 
David Lane, the Rev. Robert DeFoor and Jim Powell. Burial with 
military rites will be in Spring Hill Cemetery.

He died Thursday at James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital. 

Born Oct. 17, 1922, in Mercer County, he was the son of the late Harve 
and Mattie Norton Yates. He was an Air Force veteran of World War II. 
He was a retired restaurant owner, having owned and operated White 
Cottage Restaurant in Harrodsburg for 48 years. He was a member of 
the Harrodsburg Christian Church, a lifetime member of the American 
Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and a former member and officer of 
Harrodsburg Kiwanis Club.

Survivors include his wife, Sylvia Tyler Yates; a stepson, Paul 
Abercrombie Jr. of Nicholasville; a sister, Wilma Corn of Harrodsburg; 
and a granddaughter.

Pallbearers will be Don Yates, David Hopewell, Billy Mack Gritton, 
Jack Hankla, Bob Baughman, Tom Baughman, David Baker and John Kolossa.

Honorary pallbearers are Ray Bugg, Ricky VanArsdall and former employees 
of White Cottage Restaurant.

Visitation is from 5-9 p.m. today and after 7 a.m. Saturday.
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