From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, May 25, 1974, p. 16:
Wirt A. Yerger Sr., Jackson insurance executive and fourth generation Mississippian, died unexpectedly Friday morning while on a fishing trip at Orange Beach, Ala. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Monday in the Cathedral of St. Andrew. Burial: Greenwood cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Rivers Applewhite Yerger; three sons, Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., W. Swan Yerger, both of Jackson, and Ivan Bass Yerger of Dallas, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Rivers Gay Lurate of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Henrietta Yerger Jones of San Antonio, Texas, and eight grandchildren; Wirt A. Yerger, III, Mary Montague Yerger, Frank Montague Yerger, Virginia Palmer Yerger, Rivers Swan Yerger, Shannon Gay Lurate, Robert Barry Lurate and Leigh Yerger Lurate. Two brothers, Campbell Yerger of Memphis and Edward Yerger, Jr., of Jackson, preceded him in death.
Yerger was a native of Jackson and served as Chairman of the Board of Ross & Yerger, Inc., an insurance agency acquired by his father in 1890. He was active in many civic and community endeavors in Jackson and was a past president of and served as treasurer of the Jackson YMCA; served as president of the Jackson Association of Insurance Agents; as secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents; was a past president of the Jackson Rotary Club; was a district chairman of the Andrew Jackson Council of Boy Scouts of America; past president of the Jackson Little Theater. He was a member of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Capital City Petroleum Club, the Country Club of Jackson.
Yerger was the son of Edward Yerger and Nannie Campbell Yerger. His grandparents were Col. William Swan Yerger and Henrietta Rucks Yerger and Judge J. A. P. Campbell and Eugenia Nash Campbell. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.
Wirt A. Yerger Sr., Jackson insurance executive and fourth generation Mississippian, died unexpectedly Friday morning while on a fishing trip at Orange Beach, Ala. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Monday in the Cathedral of St. Andrew. Burial: Greenwood cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Rivers Applewhite Yerger; three sons, Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., W. Swan Yerger, both of Jackson, and Ivan Bass Yerger of Dallas, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Rivers Gay Lurate of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Henrietta Yerger Jones of San Antonio, Texas, and eight grandchildren; Wirt A. Yerger, III, Mary Montague Yerger, Frank Montague Yerger, Virginia Palmer Yerger, Rivers Swan Yerger, Shannon Gay Lurate, Robert Barry Lurate and Leigh Yerger Lurate. Two brothers, Campbell Yerger of Memphis and Edward Yerger, Jr., of Jackson, preceded him in death.
Yerger was a native of Jackson and served as Chairman of the Board of Ross & Yerger, Inc., an insurance agency acquired by his father in 1890. He was active in many civic and community endeavors in Jackson and was a past president of and served as treasurer of the Jackson YMCA; served as president of the Jackson Association of Insurance Agents; as secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents; was a past president of the Jackson Rotary Club; was a district chairman of the Andrew Jackson Council of Boy Scouts of America; past president of the Jackson Little Theater. He was a member of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Capital City Petroleum Club, the Country Club of Jackson.
Yerger was the son of Edward Yerger and Nannie Campbell Yerger. His grandparents were Col. William Swan Yerger and Henrietta Rucks Yerger and Judge J. A. P. Campbell and Eugenia Nash Campbell. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.
From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, May 25, 1974, p. 16:
Wirt A. Yerger Sr., Jackson insurance executive and fourth generation Mississippian, died unexpectedly Friday morning while on a fishing trip at Orange Beach, Ala. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Monday in the Cathedral of St. Andrew. Burial: Greenwood cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Rivers Applewhite Yerger; three sons, Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., W. Swan Yerger, both of Jackson, and Ivan Bass Yerger of Dallas, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Rivers Gay Lurate of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Henrietta Yerger Jones of San Antonio, Texas, and eight grandchildren; Wirt A. Yerger, III, Mary Montague Yerger, Frank Montague Yerger, Virginia Palmer Yerger, Rivers Swan Yerger, Shannon Gay Lurate, Robert Barry Lurate and Leigh Yerger Lurate. Two brothers, Campbell Yerger of Memphis and Edward Yerger, Jr., of Jackson, preceded him in death.
Yerger was a native of Jackson and served as Chairman of the Board of Ross & Yerger, Inc., an insurance agency acquired by his father in 1890. He was active in many civic and community endeavors in Jackson and was a past president of and served as treasurer of the Jackson YMCA; served as president of the Jackson Association of Insurance Agents; as secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents; was a past president of the Jackson Rotary Club; was a district chairman of the Andrew Jackson Council of Boy Scouts of America; past president of the Jackson Little Theater. He was a member of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Capital City Petroleum Club, the Country Club of Jackson.
Yerger was the son of Edward Yerger and Nannie Campbell Yerger. His grandparents were Col. William Swan Yerger and Henrietta Rucks Yerger and Judge J. A. P. Campbell and Eugenia Nash Campbell. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.
Wirt A. Yerger Sr., Jackson insurance executive and fourth generation Mississippian, died unexpectedly Friday morning while on a fishing trip at Orange Beach, Ala. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Monday in the Cathedral of St. Andrew. Burial: Greenwood cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Rivers Applewhite Yerger; three sons, Wirt A. Yerger, Jr., W. Swan Yerger, both of Jackson, and Ivan Bass Yerger of Dallas, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Rivers Gay Lurate of Jackson; a sister, Mrs. Henrietta Yerger Jones of San Antonio, Texas, and eight grandchildren; Wirt A. Yerger, III, Mary Montague Yerger, Frank Montague Yerger, Virginia Palmer Yerger, Rivers Swan Yerger, Shannon Gay Lurate, Robert Barry Lurate and Leigh Yerger Lurate. Two brothers, Campbell Yerger of Memphis and Edward Yerger, Jr., of Jackson, preceded him in death.
Yerger was a native of Jackson and served as Chairman of the Board of Ross & Yerger, Inc., an insurance agency acquired by his father in 1890. He was active in many civic and community endeavors in Jackson and was a past president of and served as treasurer of the Jackson YMCA; served as president of the Jackson Association of Insurance Agents; as secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Association of Insurance Agents; was a past president of the Jackson Rotary Club; was a district chairman of the Andrew Jackson Council of Boy Scouts of America; past president of the Jackson Little Theater. He was a member of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, the Capital City Petroleum Club, the Country Club of Jackson.
Yerger was the son of Edward Yerger and Nannie Campbell Yerger. His grandparents were Col. William Swan Yerger and Henrietta Rucks Yerger and Judge J. A. P. Campbell and Eugenia Nash Campbell. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order.
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