Obituaries:  Benedict Dominic Yanez, Sabine Parish       Y-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 5, 1981
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Benedict Dominic Yanez

  Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Benedict Dominic Yanez,
age 20 of Big Spring, at Nalley-Pickle Funeral Home in Big
Spring.

  A Memorial Mass was held at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, at
the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Shreveport.

  He died Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Big Spring.

  Mr. Yanez, born March 29, 1961, in Big Spring, was raised in
Shreveport, and had lived in Big Spring one year. He attended St.
Joseph Elementary in Shreveport, where he played football, and
Byrd High School, where he was in the Band. He served in the U.
S. Army, and graduated from basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga.,
with honors. He was a member of the Catholic Church, and served
as Alter Boy at St. John Berchmans Co-Cathedral in Shreveport.

  He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred M. Yanez,
Sr. of Shreveport; five sisters, Carmen Watson of Zwolle, Maria
Martin of Houston, Tex., Mary Ann Garcia of Big Spring, Rita
Horton, and Theresa Yanez of Shreveport; three brothers, Wilfred
Yanez, Jr., and Michael Yanez of Shreveport, and John Yanez of
Dallas, Tex.; his grandmother, Nora Goldfelter of Greensboro, N.
C., and a number of aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.