Grover Leo Yankie is the Beloved Son of Jonathan William Yankie I and Mary Jane Erwin Yankie. Devoted and beloved husband to Zola Whitfield Yankie, theirs was a true love story and intricate and movie caliber romanticc courtship with their married lives sadly cut too short. The children and young wife and Mother were deprived of their loving husband and father too soon, a great loss felt strongly for the rest of their lives.
Grandfather was an accomplished musician who could play the violin, mandolin, banjo and 12-string guitar which he learned from his father, Jonathan William Yankie. They were talented musicians and gifted story tellers, in true Mississippi fashion. The "Yankie Boys" were always called on to play for all the important parties in Yazoo County, Mississippii. These parties could become very elaborate in the plantation homes including their own, with oysters, shrimp and other fresh seafood brought in from the East Coast down the Mighty Mississippi River. Their plantation was on the Sunflower River, a tributary of the Mississippi. (Our dear and devoted family friend Sam Talbert sat up and kept vigil with Grandfather Yankie the night he died. We will be forever grateful to this kind Christian man.)
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OBITUARY:
G. L. YANKIE DIED TUESDAY AT ERATH**
G. L. Yankie, aged 32, prominent young resident of the northwestern part of the county, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock, at his home in Erath. Death followed an attack of influenza, complicated with pneumonia. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the Baptist church at China Spring, with interment in the China Spring cemetery, to which place the body will be taken in the motor hearse of Undertaker F. M. Compton.
Mr. Yankie was among the very highly esteemed young men of the Erath community, beloved and respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintenances.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zola W. Yankie, three sons, Willie Mike Yankie, Leo Alton Yankie and Hugh Alvin (Boots) Yankie, a brother, William Henderson (Bill) Yankie, who lives at Holly Bluff, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Yankie Whitehead, who lives in Mountainair, New Mexico.
Obituary published in
The Waco Daily Times-Herald
February 10, 1920
**Erath was a community in Mclennan County, near China Spring, with its own school, Baptist church and general store that existed for many years and for a long time after the loss of our dear Grandfather.
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Original obituary courtesy of Nancy Yankie from My Grandmother Zola Whitfield Yankie's keepsakes kept safe and close to her loving heart.
(This obituary was kept in a special memory box in her home, The Whitfield House, one of the oldest homes in McLennan County, and in the Community known as Erath.)
Grandfather was an accomplished musician who could play the violin, mandolin, banjo and 12-string guitar which he learned from his father, Jonathan William Yankie. They were talented musicians and gifted story tellers, in true Mississippi fashion. The "Yankie Boys" were always called on to play for all the important parties in Yazoo County, Mississippii. These parties could become very elaborate in the plantation homes including their own, with oysters, shrimp and other fresh seafood brought in from the East Coast down the Mighty Mississippi River. Their plantation was on the Sunflower River, a tributary of the Mississippi. (Our dear and devoted family friend Sam Talbert sat up and kept vigil with Grandfather Yankie the night he died. We will be forever grateful to this kind Christian man.)
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OBITUARY:
G. L. YANKIE DIED TUESDAY AT ERATH**
G. L. Yankie, aged 32, prominent young resident of the northwestern part of the county, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock, at his home in Erath. Death followed an attack of influenza, complicated with pneumonia. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the Baptist church at China Spring, with interment in the China Spring cemetery, to which place the body will be taken in the motor hearse of Undertaker F. M. Compton.
Mr. Yankie was among the very highly esteemed young men of the Erath community, beloved and respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintenances.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zola W. Yankie, three sons, Willie Mike Yankie, Leo Alton Yankie and Hugh Alvin (Boots) Yankie, a brother, William Henderson (Bill) Yankie, who lives at Holly Bluff, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Yankie Whitehead, who lives in Mountainair, New Mexico.
Obituary published in
The Waco Daily Times-Herald
February 10, 1920
**Erath was a community in Mclennan County, near China Spring, with its own school, Baptist church and general store that existed for many years and for a long time after the loss of our dear Grandfather.
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Original obituary courtesy of Nancy Yankie from My Grandmother Zola Whitfield Yankie's keepsakes kept safe and close to her loving heart.
(This obituary was kept in a special memory box in her home, The Whitfield House, one of the oldest homes in McLennan County, and in the Community known as Erath.)
Grover Leo Yankie is the Beloved Son of Jonathan William Yankie I and Mary Jane Erwin Yankie. Devoted and beloved husband to Zola Whitfield Yankie, theirs was a true love story and intricate and movie caliber romanticc courtship with their married lives sadly cut too short. The children and young wife and Mother were deprived of their loving husband and father too soon, a great loss felt strongly for the rest of their lives.
Grandfather was an accomplished musician who could play the violin, mandolin, banjo and 12-string guitar which he learned from his father, Jonathan William Yankie. They were talented musicians and gifted story tellers, in true Mississippi fashion. The "Yankie Boys" were always called on to play for all the important parties in Yazoo County, Mississippii. These parties could become very elaborate in the plantation homes including their own, with oysters, shrimp and other fresh seafood brought in from the East Coast down the Mighty Mississippi River. Their plantation was on the Sunflower River, a tributary of the Mississippi. (Our dear and devoted family friend Sam Talbert sat up and kept vigil with Grandfather Yankie the night he died. We will be forever grateful to this kind Christian man.)
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OBITUARY:
G. L. YANKIE DIED TUESDAY AT ERATH**
G. L. Yankie, aged 32, prominent young resident of the northwestern part of the county, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock, at his home in Erath. Death followed an attack of influenza, complicated with pneumonia. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the Baptist church at China Spring, with interment in the China Spring cemetery, to which place the body will be taken in the motor hearse of Undertaker F. M. Compton.
Mr. Yankie was among the very highly esteemed young men of the Erath community, beloved and respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintenances.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zola W. Yankie, three sons, Willie Mike Yankie, Leo Alton Yankie and Hugh Alvin (Boots) Yankie, a brother, William Henderson (Bill) Yankie, who lives at Holly Bluff, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Yankie Whitehead, who lives in Mountainair, New Mexico.
Obituary published in
The Waco Daily Times-Herald
February 10, 1920
**Erath was a community in Mclennan County, near China Spring, with its own school, Baptist church and general store that existed for many years and for a long time after the loss of our dear Grandfather.
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Original obituary courtesy of Nancy Yankie from My Grandmother Zola Whitfield Yankie's keepsakes kept safe and close to her loving heart.
(This obituary was kept in a special memory box in her home, The Whitfield House, one of the oldest homes in McLennan County, and in the Community known as Erath.)
Grandfather was an accomplished musician who could play the violin, mandolin, banjo and 12-string guitar which he learned from his father, Jonathan William Yankie. They were talented musicians and gifted story tellers, in true Mississippi fashion. The "Yankie Boys" were always called on to play for all the important parties in Yazoo County, Mississippii. These parties could become very elaborate in the plantation homes including their own, with oysters, shrimp and other fresh seafood brought in from the East Coast down the Mighty Mississippi River. Their plantation was on the Sunflower River, a tributary of the Mississippi. (Our dear and devoted family friend Sam Talbert sat up and kept vigil with Grandfather Yankie the night he died. We will be forever grateful to this kind Christian man.)
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OBITUARY:
G. L. YANKIE DIED TUESDAY AT ERATH**
G. L. Yankie, aged 32, prominent young resident of the northwestern part of the county, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock, at his home in Erath. Death followed an attack of influenza, complicated with pneumonia. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the Baptist church at China Spring, with interment in the China Spring cemetery, to which place the body will be taken in the motor hearse of Undertaker F. M. Compton.
Mr. Yankie was among the very highly esteemed young men of the Erath community, beloved and respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintenances.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Zola W. Yankie, three sons, Willie Mike Yankie, Leo Alton Yankie and Hugh Alvin (Boots) Yankie, a brother, William Henderson (Bill) Yankie, who lives at Holly Bluff, Miss., and a sister, Mrs. Bessie Yankie Whitehead, who lives in Mountainair, New Mexico.
Obituary published in
The Waco Daily Times-Herald
February 10, 1920
**Erath was a community in Mclennan County, near China Spring, with its own school, Baptist church and general store that existed for many years and for a long time after the loss of our dear Grandfather.
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Original obituary courtesy of Nancy Yankie from My Grandmother Zola Whitfield Yankie's keepsakes kept safe and close to her loving heart.
(This obituary was kept in a special memory box in her home, The Whitfield House, one of the oldest homes in McLennan County, and in the Community known as Erath.)
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