Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  LEONA MAE YEAGER

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LEONA MAE YEAGER

OCNS - June 9, 2001 - Funeral services for Leona Mae Yeager, 75, were held 
Wednesday, May 16, in the First United Methodist Church, Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma, with burial in the Pawhuska City Cemetery.

Leona was born June 10, 1925, in Ochelata, Oklahoma, to Clarence and 
Francis A. (Carter) Zink and died May 11, 2001, at Integris Bass Baptist 
Health Center.

She graduated from Shidler (Oklahoma) High School in 1946 and then moved 
to Emporia, Kansas, to work. On January 25, 1947, Leona married Clarence 
Fredrick Yeager in Lawrence, Kansas, and he preceded her in death 
March 22, 1994.

Leona was a homemaker for many years and also worked at Pawhuska 
Manufacturing Company as a seamstress. She was a member of the First 
United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women in Pawhuska.

Survivors are: a son and daughter-in-law, Louis Richard "Rick" and Vickie 
Yeager of Lamont, Oklahoma; a daughter and son-in-law, Gail Lea and Robert 
Elias of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; three granddaughters, Shari Dawn Yeager 
of Lamont, Oklahoma; Kimberly Allison Elias and Felicia Dawn Elias of 
Bartlesville; a grandson, Michael David Yeager of Lamont; five brothers: 
Cecil Zink of Webb City, Oklahoma; Bill Zink of Skellytown, Texas; Henry 
Zink of Borger, Texas; Louis Zink of Arkansas City, Kansas; Ruben Zink of 
Las Vegas, Nevada; and a host of other relatives and friends.

In addition to her husband, Leona was preceded in death by her parents, 
two brothers, LeRoy Zink and Clarence Zink, Jr.

Local arrangements were under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home, 
Pawhuska.