Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



[Annie Laura Horn - wife of William Henry Vail Yates]

FAIRFIELD RECORDER, Feb 10, 1949

Mrs. Yates Dies in Fort Worth, Saturday Morning

Mrs. Annie Laura Yates, 80, of Fort Worth, died in a Fort Worth hospital at 3:30
A.M. Saturday following a long illness.  Funeral services were held Monday 
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Guardian Funeral Home, with burial in Rose Hill.

Mrs. Yates was a native of Fairfield and the wife of the late W. H. V. Yates.
Mr. and Mrs. Yates celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in December 1947.
Her husband preceeded her in death February 21, 1948.

Surviving Mrs. Yates are two sons, Vail of Monrovial, Calif., and Neil Yates of
Weatherford; four daughters, Mrs. J. J. Pewthers of Mountain View, Okla; Mrs. 
G. C. Dunham and Mrs. O. C. Whitaker of Fort Worth, and Mrs. Rex Collins of 
Santa Ana, Calif; a sister Mrs. Joh Nix of Carnegie, Okla; two brothers, 
J. E. of Healdton, Okla. and D. A. Horn of Hotckhkiss, Colo.; 12 grandchildren
and 14 great-grandchildren and 14 great-[great-]grandchildren.

Those from Fairfield attending the funeral services, in Fort Wrth, Monday were
a niece, Mrs. T. R. Bonner, Mrs. Forrest wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bonner.