My dad Lurie Edward Yates graduated from Hattiesburg High School in 1932, where he was awarded the History medal and received a scholarship to a business school in Ohio. He was 6'1" tall, with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He married Lillie Mae Howard on 11 Nov 1934 in Hattiesburg, and they had two daughters, Olva Elizabeth, nicknamed Betty, born 30 Oct 1935; and Patsy Lee, who died shortly after birth on August 22, 1942. Prior to WW2, Lurie was an accountant and worked for Mayflower moving, the Merchants Company and Reliance Mfg. Co. in Hattiesburg and was manager of the Reliance basketball team before starting his own businesses. He owned a taxicab with the White Cab Company, operated a gas station, and with his brother Wayne owned an operated a 2-lane bowling alley on West Pine in Hattiesburg. Although tall and athletic, his poor eyesight kept him out of the armed services, so he went to California where Port Hueneme Naval Base was being built and helped to set up the accounting functions there. While living in Oxnard, CA, in 1942, he went to work for Douglas Aircraft as an expediter on the aircraft assembly line. Lurie and Lil were divorced in 1945. After the war, he married Faye Oates, joined the Merchant Marine, which took him to Alaska, but changed jobs to work for a canning company in Egegik on the Bering Peninsula. There he bought and operated his own fishing boats. He returned to Hattiesburg in 1949 after the death of his father Robert Cornelius Yates in Covington County, MS. Lurie died in an automobile accident on Edwards Street in Hattiesburg on 18 February 1950 at the age of 35.
My dad Lurie Edward Yates graduated from Hattiesburg High School in 1932, where he was awarded the History medal and received a scholarship to a business school in Ohio. He was 6'1" tall, with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He married Lillie Mae Howard on 11 Nov 1934 in Hattiesburg, and they had two daughters, Olva Elizabeth, nicknamed Betty, born 30 Oct 1935; and Patsy Lee, who died shortly after birth on August 22, 1942. Prior to WW2, Lurie was an accountant and worked for Mayflower moving, the Merchants Company and Reliance Mfg. Co. in Hattiesburg and was manager of the Reliance basketball team before starting his own businesses. He owned a taxicab with the White Cab Company, operated a gas station, and with his brother Wayne owned an operated a 2-lane bowling alley on West Pine in Hattiesburg. Although tall and athletic, his poor eyesight kept him out of the armed services, so he went to California where Port Hueneme Naval Base was being built and helped to set up the accounting functions there. While living in Oxnard, CA, in 1942, he went to work for Douglas Aircraft as an expediter on the aircraft assembly line. Lurie and Lil were divorced in 1945. After the war, he married Faye Oates, joined the Merchant Marine, which took him to Alaska, but changed jobs to work for a canning company in Egegik on the Bering Peninsula. There he bought and operated his own fishing boats. He returned to Hattiesburg in 1949 after the death of his father Robert Cornelius Yates in Covington County, MS. Lurie died in an automobile accident on Edwards Street in Hattiesburg on 18 February 1950 at the age of 35.
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