The following excerpts were taken from page 10 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - December 8, 1999
YATES
Services are pending at First United Methodist Church for
Louise D. Yates of Albuquerque, NM.  Yates, 84, died on
December 5 at Lovelace Hospital in Albuquerque.  She lived most
of her adult life in Artesia, although she resided for the past
seven months in Albuquerque.  She is survived by sons Fred G. Yates,
and George M. Yates, both of Roswell, and Harvey Yates Jr. of
Albuquerque; and brother Roy Davidson of Raton, NM.  She was
preceded in death by brothers Earl Davidson of Santa Fe, NM, and
Bill Davidson of Carlsbad, NM.  A memorial service will be 
on December 9, in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico
Chapel to be followed by a reception.  Her funeral will be in 
Artesia at a later date.
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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 28, 2000
YEAROUT
Funeral services will be held for Edith Day Yearout, 97, on
January 29, at Denton-Funchess Funeral Home Chapel.  Interment
will bollow at Sunset Gardens Memorial Park.  She died January 26
at Carlsbad Medical Center.  Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.  She was born November 17, 1902, in
Indian Territory, Woodward, Okla., to Marion Madison and Polly
Loretta Johnson Day.  She grew up in the Lubbock, Texas area, 
graduating from Lockney, Texas High School and then West Texas
University, at Canyon, Texas.  She received her teacher's certificate
in Colorado.  She married Evan Jones Yearout.  They moved to
California for a year and then to Maryville, in east Tennessee, for
two years, where their first child was born.  They moved to
Floyd County, Texas, and farmed.  After selling the farm they 
moved to Carlsbad in 1943.  She had been a member of First United
Methodist Church since 1946.  She was preceded in death by her
parents, three brothers, three sisters, and her husband on
November 1, 1965.  Survivors include a daughter, Evelyn Schiller
of Tucson, Ariz.; sister, Lydia Jones of Clovis, NM; three grand-
children, James Schiller Jr. of Tallahassee, Fla., Carol Ann
Schiller of Tucson, and Patricia Cohen of Missoula, Mont.; and
three great-grandchildren, Lana Cohen, Tanya Cohen and James
"J.R." Schiller.  (Photo shown of Yearout)
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