Obituary

Yates, Ernie, Mrs. (Eunice J.D. Wallace)

Hale Center-- Funeral services for Eunice J.D. Yates, 94, will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood Chapel in Amarillo with the Rev. Ron Whitt of Coulter Road Baptist Church officiating.

Burial will be in Hale Center Cemetery by Schooler Funeral Home.

Mrs. Yates died Friday, Oct. 24, 2003.

She was born July 17, 1904, in Stephenville, the daughter of the late Samuel Edward and Minnie Ola Gordon Wallace.

She married Ernie Yates. She was the first woman in the state to own a 4th class post office after receiving a contract with the U.S. government in 1933. She and her husband built the post office in Cotton Center and moved there in 1934. They carried the mail on a rural route for four years.

She worked for Port Hueneme Seabee Navy Base in 1945, U.S. military base in Tokyo, Japan, in 1960, Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Okla., in 1962 and retired in 1970.

Her husband is deceased.

Survivors include a daughter and a son-in-law, Betty Jean and Tommie Sossaman of Amarillo; a sister and brother-in-law, Eleane and Ray Cochran of Mesa, Ariz.; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

The family suggest memorials to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176, or to the Craig Methodist Retirement Community, 5500 W. 9th, Amarillo, TX 79106.

Plainview Daily Herald-- Oct. 28, 2003