Richard E. Yates

richard yates
Yates, Richard E., 73, retired construction worker and crop duster, died Friday, March 04, 2005. Service 2:00 P.M., Friday, March 25, Downing Lahey Mortuary East. Richard served in the Army Airborne as a Special Forces Pathfinder during the Korean War. He enjoyed his grandchildren, hunting and fishing. Survivors: wife, Loretta; daughters and son-in-law, Marilyn Wolf of Provo, UT, Barbara Wolf of Phoenix, AZ and Esther and Dean Headley of Wichita; sister, Dorothy Banner of Tulsa, OK; grandchildren, Stephanie Crupper-Fitzgerald of Phoenix, Chad Crupper of Phoenix and Max Schwartz of Santa Barbara, CA; great-grandchild, Brigid Fitzgerald. In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice-St. Francis, 313 S. Market, Wichita, KS, 67202, American Cancer Society, 435 S. Broadway, S-100, Wichita, KS, 67202 and American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 1132, Fairfax, VA, 22038-1132. Tributes may be sent to the family via www.downingandlahey.com

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