{23 Jul 2019, Revised 27 Feb 2022: Biography of Bobbie Lou by Grant Collar, b.1931. I_was her classmate at Shawnee High School (which had grades 1-12, located a mile south of Joiner, Mississippi County, Arkansas) in Sep 1940 to Mar 1941 and Sep 1946 to Jun 1948. She had attended grades 1-3 at Wardell (on Arkansas 181 two miles west of Bassett, Mississippi County), where her father was a farmer. She graduated Shawnee in 1949. We were close friends and kept in touch. I last saw her at the 1989 Shawnee School Reunion and last called her Apr 2004. She was a wonderful person, like her younger siblings that I knew.

Bobbie first married c1953/54 to ___?___ YATES and had eight children (per her obituary and the obituary of her second husband, Jim, and per GenealogyBank transcription of her newspaper obituary, which is very subject to error):

(1) James Fairley YATES, b: 01 Sep 1954, d: 13 Sep 1954 (aged 12 days), buried Louise Chapel Cemetery, Joiner, Mississippi County, Arkansas, Find A Grave Memorial# 9430780.

(2) Edith Carol YATES, b: 02 Mar 1957, d: 14 Nov 2001 (aged 44), buried Louise Chapel Cemetery, Joiner, Mississippi County, Arkansas, Find A Grave Memorial# 198068215. She was a Licensed Practical Nurse in Jonesboro at time of her death (per Jonesboro Sun obituary).

(3) Thomas G. YATES, b: 25 Oct 1960, d: 04 Apr 2014 (aged 53), buried Louise Chapel Cemetery, Joiner, Mississippi County, Arkansas, FAG# 198067507. He lived West Memphis, Arkansas in 2007.

(4) Billy YATES, lived Jonesboro, Arkansas in 2007.

(5) Michael YATES, lived Memphis, Tennessee in 2007.

(6) Debbie YATES Underwood, lived Cordova, Tennessee (just east of Memphis) in 2007.

(7) Rita YATES Davison, lived Osceola, Arkansas in 2007.

(8) Beth YATES, lived Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 2007.

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In 1979 at age 49, Bobbie married her second and last husband, James R. "Jim" BELUE, b: 28_Apr 1926 Earle, Crittenden County, Arkansas, d: 12 Dec 2005 Osceola, Mississippi County, Arkansas, aged 79), buried Crittenden Memorial Park Cemetery, Marion, Crittenden County, Arkansas, Find A Grave Memorial# 1052555, last lived Osceola, where they had one of three dry cleaning businesses. Jim had a stroke about 2000 and d:_12_ Dec_2005 of heart failure at home in Osceola. A month after his death, Bobbie was diagnosed with lung cancer and died seven months later at home in Osceola. Breathing too much dry cleaning vapor possibly contributed to her death at age 75. Bobbie and Jim had no children.

Jim BELUE first married Marian Virginia COBB, born 18 Nov 1926 Heafer, Crittenden County, Arkansas, d: 09 Sep 2015, age 88, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, buried Crittenden Memorial Park Cemetery, Marion, Arkansas, Find A Grave Memorial# 10525553, had two children: Dr James Michael "Mike" BELUE who lived Ruston, Louisiana in 2015 and daughter Lynne BELUE Lawrence (Coats per her mother's 2015 obituary) who lived Little Rock, in 2005-2015. Jim and Marian had lived in Earle, Crittenden County, and later had moved to Osceola, Mississippi County. But Marian moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas in 1972 - which indicates the approximate time of their separation/divorce. Jim remarried in 1979 to Bobbie Lou SHANN0N Yates.

Bobbie was buried in Louise Chapel Cemetery near Joiner, where her parents, William Franklin "Willie" SHANNON and Velma STARLING Shannon and the first four of their eight children were buried: Melvin, Edith, William Ause, and Bobbie. ___________________End of biography of Bobbie Lou by Grant Collar

Note by Grant Collar: The following obituary was once the entire biography of a duplicate memorial, but on 07 May 2019, it was merged with this memorial by Find A Grave administrative personnel.

OSCEOLA -- Mrs. Bobbie Shannon Belue, 74, of Osceola, entered into eternal rest Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006 at her home. Born Sunday, Aug. 23, 1931, at Joiner, to W. F. and Velma Starling Shannon, she was a lifelong area resident. She was a graduate of Shawnee High School [of Joiner, Arkansas] and a member of the Osceola First Baptist Church and Progressive Club.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Jim Belue; one son, James Fairley Yates; one daughter Edith Carol Yates; two brothers, Melvin and Buddy Shannon; and one sister, Edith Shannon.

She is survived by three sons, Billy Yates of Jonesboro, Michael Yates of Memphis and Tommy Yates of West Memphis; one stepson, Dr. Mike Belue of Ruston, La.; three daughters, Debbie Underwood of Memphis, Rita Davison of Osceola and Beth Yates of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; one stepdaughter, Lynne Lawrence of Little Rock; 23 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; one brother, Kenneth Shannon of Joiner; seven sisters, Dorothy Shannon Ray of Hernando Miss., Bessie Shannon Jenkins of Marion, Janice Shannon Childers of Joiner, Tommye Jo Shannon Meade of Tchula, Miss., Carolyn Shannon Speck of Frenchmans Bayou, Margaret Shannon Rounsavall of Marion and Kathy Shannon James of Wilson.

Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in the church. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today in Osceola First Baptist Church. Memorials may be made to Louise Chapel Cemetery Fund, First Baptist Church, or donor's choice. Online guestbook: www.rollerfuneralhomes.com