Obit for Yates, Eunice J.D. - Comanche County OK Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/ 29 Nov 2009 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Hale Center Cemetery--Hale Center TX Eunice J.D. Yates Eunice J.D. Yates, 94, of Amarillo died Friday, Oct. 24, 2003. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood Chapel, 4100 S. Georgia St., with the Rev. Ron Whittof Coulter Road Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Hale Center Cemetery of Hale Center. Mrs. Yates was called home to her God, the Heavenly Father. She was born in the county of Stephenville. She was the first woman in the state of Texas to own a fourth-class post office. She received a contract with the U.S. Government in 1933. Ernie and Eunice Yates built the post office in Cotton Center and moved there in 1934. They had carried the mail on a rural mail route for four years. She worked for Port Hueneme Seabee Navy Base in 1945, the military base in Tokyo, Japan, in 1960, and Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Okla., in 1962. She retired in 1970. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernie Malcolm Yates; and her parents, Samuel Edward and Minnie Ola Gordon Wallace. Survivors include a daughter, Betty Jean Sossaman and husband, Tommie, of Amarillo; a sister, Eleane Cochran and husband, Ray, of Mesa, Ariz.; three grandchildren, John Lee Atchley and Debbie Osborn and husband, Steve, all of Amarillo, and Tina Denton and husband, Leslie, of Vernon; four great-grandchildren, Michelle Nelson, Stefanie Nelson, Codie Denton and Ty Denton; and two great-great- grandchildren, Brittany and Bryce Nelson. The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176; or to Craig Methodist Retirement Community, 5500 W. Ninth Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106. Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 26, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html