Memorials › Teresa Margaret Alford Yarbrough
22 Sep 1927 – 18 Jan 2007
| Birth | 22 Sep 1927 |
| Death | 18 Jan 2007 |
| Cemetery | Fairview Cemetery Tularosa , Otero County , New Mexico , USA |
| Added by | Pamela Thompson on 06 Jul 2021 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17611566 |
Teresa Yarbrough, 79, of Tularosa, died Thursday, January 18, 2007, in Alamogordo. Mrs. Yarbrough was born September 22, 1927 in Buffalo, New York to Frederick Christopher and Magdalene Regina (Kuffel) Alford. In 1945 she graduated from Sandstone (Minnesota) High School. She attended Weber College in Ogden, Utah and received as Associate of Science degree in accounting in 1952. She was an accounting technician with civil service at White Sands Missile Range until her retirement in 1975. Her special interests were baseball, swimming and ice skating. She loved to watch mysteries and Disney movies. She was a member of St. Francis de Paula Catholic Church in Tularosa. Survivors include two daughters, Joan Tucker of Kansas City, Missouri, and Patricia MaGoon and her husband Rodney of Rio Rancho; two sons, Gerald Hanson of Carson City, Mevada, and Michael Hanson and his wife Linda of Fayetteville, North Carolina; two stepsons, Alfred Yarbrough and his wife Marie of Los Lunas, and Jimmy Yarbrough and his wife Joy of Alamogordo; four stepdaughters, Barbara Hyde and her husband Bernard of Alamogordo, Wanda Boyce and her husband Sam of La Luz, Elaine Bayes and her husband Billie of Albuquerque, and Jean Rawles and her husband Leonard of Alamogordo; numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren; two sisters, Evelyn Karn of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Barbara Kuhrke of St. Paul, Minnesota; and a brother Patrick Alford and his wife Lois of St. Matthews, South Carolina. She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Thomas R. Yarbrough, in 1996. A vigil service will be conducted Monday at 7:00 p.m. in the Hamilton-O'Dell Chapel with the Rosary to be recited by Vanita Chelgren. Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Francis de Paula Catholic Church with Father John Peterson, O.F.M. as celebrant. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Tularosa. Pallbearers will be Jerrod MaGoon, Richard Tucker, Bernard Hyde, Pat Stanley, Richard Denton and Wrangler Denton. Friend may call Monday from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Hamilton-O'Dell Funeral Home.
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