Eric Preston Yates
Virginia Beach - Eric Preston Yates, Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War, died peacefully in his sleep on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. Eric was born Nov 13, 1945 at the Naval Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas, first son of Lieutenant Earl Preston Yates, USN and Lucy Welch Yates of Annapolis Maryland. He moved to 28 locations in the first fifteen years of his life, then graduated from Virginia Beach High School in the class of 1963, following a very successful membership in the winningest football team of that era. Following his graduation from Campbell College, he entered the U.S. Navy as a junior officer candidate and served aboard a Destroyer in an extensive bombardment campaign along the coast of North Vietnam. After completing his Naval Service, he organized and managed multiple retail clothing businesses in Myrtle Beach and Virginia Beach, one of which survives today as the Bahama Shop at Hilltop. He then retired from business and devoted his time and excellent writing skills to the love of his life, Sports: horses, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, and any other athletic genre with a competitive twist. A fierce competitor himself, he taught tennis and was seeking the Over Seventy championship when he fell ill. He became the family author and sports encyclopedia when Sammy Baugh shook his hand and signed his program at a Redskins pre-game breakfast at the 14th Street Marriott Motel. He is survived and sorely missed by his daughter, Stephanie Kelly Yates, of Portland, OR, his four siblings Susan, Philip, George, and Abbey, his many cousins, nieces, nephews, and his father RADM Yates. A visitation will be held on Thursday from 6 to 8pm at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel. A graveside service will be held on Friday, 11am at Albert Horton Veterans Cemetery.
Virginia Beach - Eric Preston Yates, Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War, died peacefully in his sleep on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. Eric was born Nov 13, 1945 at the Naval Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas, first son of Lieutenant Earl Preston Yates, USN and Lucy Welch Yates of Annapolis Maryland. He moved to 28 locations in the first fifteen years of his life, then graduated from Virginia Beach High School in the class of 1963, following a very successful membership in the winningest football team of that era. Following his graduation from Campbell College, he entered the U.S. Navy as a junior officer candidate and served aboard a Destroyer in an extensive bombardment campaign along the coast of North Vietnam. After completing his Naval Service, he organized and managed multiple retail clothing businesses in Myrtle Beach and Virginia Beach, one of which survives today as the Bahama Shop at Hilltop. He then retired from business and devoted his time and excellent writing skills to the love of his life, Sports: horses, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, and any other athletic genre with a competitive twist. A fierce competitor himself, he taught tennis and was seeking the Over Seventy championship when he fell ill. He became the family author and sports encyclopedia when Sammy Baugh shook his hand and signed his program at a Redskins pre-game breakfast at the 14th Street Marriott Motel. He is survived and sorely missed by his daughter, Stephanie Kelly Yates, of Portland, OR, his four siblings Susan, Philip, George, and Abbey, his many cousins, nieces, nephews, and his father RADM Yates. A visitation will be held on Thursday from 6 to 8pm at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel. A graveside service will be held on Friday, 11am at Albert Horton Veterans Cemetery.
Eric Preston Yates
Virginia Beach - Eric Preston Yates, Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War, died peacefully in his sleep on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. Eric was born Nov 13, 1945 at the Naval Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas, first son of Lieutenant Earl Preston Yates, USN and Lucy Welch Yates of Annapolis Maryland. He moved to 28 locations in the first fifteen years of his life, then graduated from Virginia Beach High School in the class of 1963, following a very successful membership in the winningest football team of that era. Following his graduation from Campbell College, he entered the U.S. Navy as a junior officer candidate and served aboard a Destroyer in an extensive bombardment campaign along the coast of North Vietnam. After completing his Naval Service, he organized and managed multiple retail clothing businesses in Myrtle Beach and Virginia Beach, one of which survives today as the Bahama Shop at Hilltop. He then retired from business and devoted his time and excellent writing skills to the love of his life, Sports: horses, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, and any other athletic genre with a competitive twist. A fierce competitor himself, he taught tennis and was seeking the Over Seventy championship when he fell ill. He became the family author and sports encyclopedia when Sammy Baugh shook his hand and signed his program at a Redskins pre-game breakfast at the 14th Street Marriott Motel. He is survived and sorely missed by his daughter, Stephanie Kelly Yates, of Portland, OR, his four siblings Susan, Philip, George, and Abbey, his many cousins, nieces, nephews, and his father RADM Yates. A visitation will be held on Thursday from 6 to 8pm at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel. A graveside service will be held on Friday, 11am at Albert Horton Veterans Cemetery.
Virginia Beach - Eric Preston Yates, Navy Veteran of the Vietnam War, died peacefully in his sleep on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. Eric was born Nov 13, 1945 at the Naval Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas, first son of Lieutenant Earl Preston Yates, USN and Lucy Welch Yates of Annapolis Maryland. He moved to 28 locations in the first fifteen years of his life, then graduated from Virginia Beach High School in the class of 1963, following a very successful membership in the winningest football team of that era. Following his graduation from Campbell College, he entered the U.S. Navy as a junior officer candidate and served aboard a Destroyer in an extensive bombardment campaign along the coast of North Vietnam. After completing his Naval Service, he organized and managed multiple retail clothing businesses in Myrtle Beach and Virginia Beach, one of which survives today as the Bahama Shop at Hilltop. He then retired from business and devoted his time and excellent writing skills to the love of his life, Sports: horses, football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, and any other athletic genre with a competitive twist. A fierce competitor himself, he taught tennis and was seeking the Over Seventy championship when he fell ill. He became the family author and sports encyclopedia when Sammy Baugh shook his hand and signed his program at a Redskins pre-game breakfast at the 14th Street Marriott Motel. He is survived and sorely missed by his daughter, Stephanie Kelly Yates, of Portland, OR, his four siblings Susan, Philip, George, and Abbey, his many cousins, nieces, nephews, and his father RADM Yates. A visitation will be held on Thursday from 6 to 8pm at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel. A graveside service will be held on Friday, 11am at Albert Horton Veterans Cemetery.
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