Submitted by: Dan Rich

Helen Ruby Yates

Dec. 21, 2008

South Bend Tribune 12/24/2008
SOUTH BEND - Ms. Helen Ruby (Young) Yates, 92, died Sunday, December 21, 2008, in Columbia, Tennessee. The Kalamazoo, Michigan, native was the daughter of the late John Young and Jessie Florence Landen Young. She was a longtime resident of Pinellas Park, Florida, where she was employed as a cafeteria manager by the Pinellas County School Board for 20 years, and was a former resident of South Bend, Indiana. She was a member of First Assembly of God in Pinellas Park, FL. Survivors include two daughters, Susan Mabesoone-Sharp and Charlotte (Frank) Tamberrino, both of Columbia, TN; one son, Gerald John Yates of Ocala, Florida; seven grandchildren, Brett Bailey, Patrick Bailey, Christopher (Mary) Mabesoone and Donald Mabesoone, all of Florida, Michael Tamberrino and Cara Tamberrino, both of Columbia, TN, and John (Angie) Yates of South Bend, Indiana; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Shirley and Lawrence Eddington of Florida; nine great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; and two nephews. She was preceded in death by an infant son, George Alan Yates; an infant daughter, Beverly Jean Yates; a granddaughter, Lynn Yates; two brothers, LeRoy Young and Charles Young; and by the father of her children, Gerald V. Yates.