Washington County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  ERNEST LEON YATES Y320

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ERNEST LEON YATES

OCNS - April 9, 2002 - Ernest Leon Yates, 61, died Sunday, April 7, 2002 
in the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Graveside services were held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, in the Memorial Park 
Cemetery in Bartlesville with Pastor Orville Moody of the Rose Hill 
Community Baptist Church officiating, directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home.

Mr. Yates was born July 2, 1940 at Bartlesville, the son of William J. and 
Louise M. (Benefiel) Yates.   He moved to California when he was a 
teenager and graduated from the Baldwin Park high School there with the 
class of 1958.   he lived most of his life in California, moving back to 
Bartlesville in 1993.

Paul had worked as a truck driver for the Bekins Moving and Storage 
Company and later for the McDonald-Douglas Aircraft manufacturing Company.  
He was a member of the Teamsters Union and the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.

Mr. Yates is survived by his mother, Louise M. Yates, of Bartlesville; two 
brothers, Billy C. Yates and his wife, Pat, of St. Augustine Beach, 
Florida, and Gary A. Yates of Portland, Maine; one sister, June Braden and 
her husband, Bill of Glenview, Illinois; two nieces, two nephews, many 
aunts and uncles and a host of other relatives and friends.   He was 
preceded in death by his father.