Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 1/18/1994

Harry Yates

Jan. 3, 1922-Jan. 17, 1994

MISHAWAKA - Harry ``Bud'' Yates, 72, of 2124 E. Jefferson Road, died at 5:35 p.m. Monday in his home after an illness. Mr. Yates retired from Woodruff & Sons, Michigan City. He was born Jan. 3, 1922, in Chrisman, Ill., and lived in Mishawaka since 1948, coming from Metcalf, Ill. On June 6, 1939, in Paris, Ill., he married Erna ``Jerry'' Wynn. She survives, with a daughter, Setta Kay Baney of Bradenton, Fla.; a son, Richard E. of Mishawaka; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Ruth Wallace of Arkansas; and two brothers, Dennis L. Wallace of Valparaiso and Jim Yates of Casey, Ill. He was a veteran of World War II and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 360 and the First Church of Nazarene, Chrisman.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home, Osceola. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Visiting Nurses Association