Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Doris Kinnard Hall Yates was born September 9th, 1924 in Dallas, Texas, to David Vernon and Coretta Barker Kinnard, being their only child. Her love of life spread to all she met. She laughed, loved and danced her way through most of her life with the last years being physically challenged due to congestive heart failure. Her big beautiful sky blue eyes struck all who met her throughout her entire life, even during her last days. Here is her story.
John Hall and Doris were dating when WWII started for the USA with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mother said they were at a dance in Dallas when it was announced that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Couples scattered to families and some got married before our boys went to war. Mother was barely seventeen. They eloped and John enlisted. They moved to Neosho, Missouri, where Daddy took basic training and Mother worked at the base with Italian prisoners of war. John served in the Philippines and thankfully returned safely to his bride at the end of the war where the marriage resulted in the births of three daughters, Donna, Sharon and Susan.
Memories of Mother while growing up were the meals on the table every evening by 6:30 pm for a sit-down family dinner after her 8 to 5 job Monday through Friday at the Directory Company, prom dresses and other clothes she sewed into the wee hours of the morning and the Friday night BBQs watching Mama and Daddy dance to “Rambling Rose” in the den. She was a dancer, fisherman, deer hunter and cook. After moving back home to San Angelo in 2002, she met with former co-workers from GTE once a month for “Meet to Eat”, exercised at the Senior Wellness Center, delivered for Meals on Wheels, joined the Historical Society and volunteered at Fort Concho Christmas and Shannon Hospital among other activities until a fall made her health start failing on May 30th, 2009.
She was a loving daughter, wife, Mother, Mother- in-law, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Aunt, cousin, sister- in-law and friend during her life. She sadly lost many of these relationships through time including John, her first love, Charlie Yates, the second “love of her life” and Scottie, her grandson that died of cancer before seeing his fifth birthday. She hopes to reunite with them now that God has chosen her for this journey home. She hopes her survivors will remember her with love together.
Thank you to Nathaniel Hankins and her church family for their special care of Mother during these last years while homebound. Her heartfelt thanks go to all that enabled her to live her last days as she wanted, being loved and cared for while in her own home.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Concho Valley Regional Food Bank, for both people and their pets, in memory of Doris. Graveside service will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, March 22, 2013 at Fairmount Cemetery.
Family and friends may sign an online register book at www.johnson-funeralhome.com.
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