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Jimmie Yerby
10 Jan 1902 – 17 Apr 2005
| Birth | 10 Jan 1902 |
| Death | 17 Apr 2005 |
| Cemetery | Tecumseh Cemetery Tecumseh , Pottawatomie County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | Kay Sugg Best on 26 Apr 2005 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10858931 |
Bio
Copied with permission from the Shawnee News-Star: April 20, 2005: Jimmie Yerby, 103, died Sunday, April 17, at Unity Health Center in Shawnee. He was born Jan. 10, 1902, in Alvord, Texas, to John L. Yerby and Janie (Porter) Yerby. He moved to Petrolia, Texas, in 1920 and moved to Oklahoma in 1929. He was married to Perl Waters and later married Shorty Thompson in 1975. Yerby was a member of the Oklahoma Centernarian Club and Northwest Missionary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; one wife, Pearl; one son, Glendel Yerby; two brothers, B.B. Yerby and Leslie Yerby; one sister, Ethel Mae Zimmerman; and one step-son, Floyd Thompson. Survivors include his wife, Shorty Yerby, of the home; two sons, Johnny Lee Yerby of Oklahoma City and Curtis L. Yerby of Oklahoma City; one step-son, Howard Thompson of Shawnee; one step-daughter, Juanita Lee of Prague; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. today at Northwest Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Ed Fox officiating. Burial will follow at Tecumseh Cemetery under the direction of Gaskill Funeral Home of Shawnee.
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- Martha Elizabath Yerby 1897–1901 FaG
- Boyd Becker Yerby Sr 1899–1996 FaG
- Leslie Lee "Les" Yerby 1904–2003 FaG
- Ethel Mae Yerby Zimmerman 1914–1999 FaG
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